The votes are in!
Below are all 50 finalists in MnDOT’s Name a Snowplow contest with the number of votes each name received.
The top 8 winners were:
- Plowy McPlowFace – Metro District
- Ope, Just Gonna Plow Right Past Ya – District 4
- Duck Duck Orange Truck – District 1
- Plow Bunyan – District 2
- Snowbi Wan Kenobi – District 6
- F. Salt Fitzgerald – District 7
- Darth Blader – District 3
- The Truck Formerly Known As Plow – District 8
Note: Individuals were able to vote for up to eight choices, so the final tallies will differ from the overall number of votes. There were a total of 122,435 unique voters.
| Snowplow name | Number of votes |
|---|---|
| Ain’t Snow Stopping Us Now | 7,969 |
| Babe the Orange Plow | 7,266 |
| Blizzard Blaster | 6,273 |
| Blizzard of Oz | 12,665 |
| Blizzard Wizard | 8,364 |
| Buzz Iceclear | 11,079 |
| C-3PSnow | 13,124 |
| Cold Enough for Ya? | 4,719 |
| Darth Blader | 20,344 |
| Dontcha Snow | 13,736 |
| Duck Duck Orange Truck | 25,824 |
| Edward Blizzardhands | 13,381 |
| F. Salt Fitzgerald | 20,699 |
| Fast and the Flurry Less | 6,284 |
| Flake Superior | 7,671 |
| For Your Ice Only | 7,837 |
| Frostbite | 4,045 |
| Frosty the Snowplow | 9,108 |
| Giiwedin (Ojibwe word for ‘north wind’) | 16,041 |
| Goldy Snow-pher | 5,645 |
| Ičamna (Dakota word for ‘blizzard’) | 14,264 |
| Joe Plow-er | 5,958 |
| Justin Moresnow | 6,676 |
| Kent Brrr-bek | 5,955 |
| King of the North | 8,099 |
| Lake SnowBeGone | 8,061 |
| Live, Laugh, Plow | 8,378 |
| L'Plow du Nord | 12,237 |
| Luke Snowalker | 8,098 |
| Mary Tyler More Snow | 6,306 |
| Minnesota nICE | 9,003 |
| No Business Like Snow Business | 4,990 |
| Oh Snow You Didn't! | 9,518 |
| Ope, Just Gonna Plow Right Past Ya | 29,457 |
| Plow Bunyan | 22,016 |
| Plowabunga! | 11,226 |
| Plowin' in the Wind | 4,803 |
| Plowy McPlowFace | 65,292 |
| Princess Kay of the Snowy Way | 5,075 |
| Purple Snow | 8,829 |
| Raspberry Brrr-et | 11,465 |
| Road Carew | 6,621 |
| Sir Plows A Lot | 16,212 |
| Snow Place like Home | 4,346 |
| Snowbi Wan Kenobi | 21,568 |
| Spirit of ‘91 | 9,338 |
| Tator Tot Hotdish | 10,554 |
| The Truck Formerly Known as Plow | 17,549 |
| The Winterstate | 4,135 |