diff --git a/src/snowflake/snowpark/modin/plugin/_internal/ordered_dataframe.py b/src/snowflake/snowpark/modin/plugin/_internal/ordered_dataframe.py
index 8ba63bc1ad4..50aee2a3360 100644
--- a/src/snowflake/snowpark/modin/plugin/_internal/ordered_dataframe.py
+++ b/src/snowflake/snowpark/modin/plugin/_internal/ordered_dataframe.py
@@ -420,10 +420,21 @@ def ensure_row_count_column(self) -> "OrderedDataFrame":
                 wrap_double_underscore=True,
             )[0]
         )
-        ordered_dataframe = self.select(
-            *self.projected_column_snowflake_quoted_identifiers,
-            count("*").over().as_(row_count_snowflake_quoted_identifier),
-        )
+        if not self.is_projection_of_table():
+            ordered_dataframe = self.select(
+                *self.projected_column_snowflake_quoted_identifiers,
+                count("*").over().as_(row_count_snowflake_quoted_identifier),
+            )
+        else:
+            from snowflake.snowpark.modin.plugin._internal.utils import pandas_lit
+
+            row_count = self.select(count("*").as_("__count_of_rows__"),).collect()[
+                0
+            ][0]
+            ordered_dataframe = self.select(
+                *self.projected_column_snowflake_quoted_identifiers,
+                pandas_lit(row_count).as_(row_count_snowflake_quoted_identifier),
+            )
         # inplace update so dataframe_ref can be shared. Note that we keep
         # the original ordering columns.
         ordered_dataframe.row_count_snowflake_quoted_identifier = (
@@ -2019,3 +2030,23 @@ def sample(self, n: Optional[int], frac: Optional[float]) -> "OrderedDataFrame":
                 ordering_columns=self.ordering_columns,
             )
         )
+
+    def is_projection_of_table(self) -> bool:
+        """
+        Return whether or not the current OrderedDataFrame is simply a projection of a table.
+
+        Returns:
+            bool
+            True if the current OrderedDataFrame is simply a projection of a table. False if it represents
+            a more complex operation.
+        """
+        # If we have only performed projections since creating this DataFrame, it will only contain
+        # 1 API call in the plan - either `Session.sql` for DataFrames based off of I/O operations
+        # e.g. `read_snowflake` or `read_csv`, or `Session.create_dataframe` for DataFrames created
+        # out of Python objects.
+        snowpark_df = self._dataframe_ref.snowpark_dataframe
+        snowpark_plan = snowpark_df._plan
+        return len(snowpark_plan.api_calls) == 1 and any(
+            accepted_api in snowpark_plan.api_calls[0]["name"]
+            for accepted_api in ["Session.sql", "Session.create_dataframe"]
+        )