And the winner is....

Election results are in! Thanks to everyone who voted for their favorite vegetable in the U*S*Kids Veggie Election.

And the winner is... Forrest T. Broccoli! On the following page you can see how much of the total number of votes each candidate received (the percentage).

Many readers chose to vote for "write-in" candidates. They even came up with their own names for these new veggie characters. (There were a lot of write-in votes for carrots--must be because they come in bunches.) The names were so creative and clever that we decided to include some of them here. A few of these original veggie characters were even invited to the victory celebration on the next page. Can you spot them?

Aaron Artichoke Beta Rich Carrot Caitlin Carrot Care-a-lot Carrot Carl Carrot Carol C. Carrot Carrie Carrot Carter C. Carrot Cindy Carrot Cody Carrot

Connie Carrot Cory Carrot Illa Carrot Catrina Cabbage Cel R. E. (celery!) Capt. Cue Cumber Cutie Q. Cumber P.G. Cucumber Freda Green Bean Gary Green Bean

Granny Green Bean Jean Green Bean Cora Me Okra Mr. Fried Q. Okra Iola Onion B.B. Baked Potato Eye Daho Potato Ida H.O. Potato Sir Pickle Mickle Butter N. Squash

Hubbard Squash Josh Squash Terrie Tomato Terry Tomato Tiffany Tomato Timmy Tomato Tom Tomato Tom Atoes Tina Turnip Lean E. Zucchini