Voting at the Eurovision Song Contest

The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest is selected by a positional voting system. The most recent system was implemented in the 2023 contest. Each participating country is awarded two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points, based on their ten favourite songs. One set of picks from their professional jury, and the other from televoting. Only televoting is used in the semi-finals. Both jury and televoting is used in the final.[1][2]

Overview

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Small, demographically-balanced juries made up of ordinary people had been used to rank the entries. After the widespread use of telephone voting in 1998, the contest organizers resorted to juries only in the event of a televoting malfunctions. In 2003, Eircom's telephone polling system malfunctioned. Irish broadcaster RTÉ did not receive the polling results from Eircom in time, and substituted votes by a panel of judges.[3] Between 1997 and 2003, the first years of televoting, lines were opened to the public for only five minutes after the performance and recap of the final song. Between 2004 and 2006, the lines were opened for ten minutes. From 2007 to 2009, they were opened for fifteen minutes.

In 2010, 2011 and 2024, viewers were allowed to vote during the performances. This was rescinded for the 2012 contest. Since the 2004 contest, the presenters will start the televoting window with the phrase "Europe, start voting now!". This invitation applies to Australia since 2015 ("Europe and Australia, start voting now!"), and to the non-participating countries since 2023 ("Europe, Australia, and the rest of the world, start voting now!"). At the end of the voting period, the presenters will invite viewers and the audience to stop, with a final countdown, along with the phrase "Europe, Australia, and the rest of the world, stop voting now!". The United Kingdom is not able to vote via SMS or the smartphone app, due to legislation implemented after the 2007 British premium-rate phone-in scandal.

The BBC contacted regional juries by telephone to choose the 1956 winners. The European Broadcasting Union, the producers of the contest, later began contacting international juries by telephone. This method continued to be used until 1993. 1994 saw the first satellite link-up to juries.[4]

To announce the votes, the contest's presenters connect by satellite to each country, and invite a spokesperson to read the country's votes in French or English. The presenters originally repeated the votes in both languages. Since 2004 the votes have been translated due to time constraints. To offset increased voting time required by a larger number of participating countries, since 2006 only countries' 8-, 10-, and 12-point scores were read aloud. One- to seven-point votes were added automatically to the scoreboard, while each country's spokesperson was introduced.

The scoreboard displays the number of points each country has received, and, since 2008, a progress bar indicating the number of countries which have voted. Since 2016, only the 12-point score is read aloud due to the new voting system, meaning that the nine scoring countries were added automatically to the scoreboard, 1-8 and 10 points. The televoting points were combined and the presenters announced them in order, starting from the country with the lowest score and ending with the country with the highest score, from the televoting. Beginning with the 2019 contest, the televoting points are announced by the presenters based on the juries' rankings, in reverse order.

Voting systems

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Year Points Voting system
1956 (10–1) × 2 Two jurors per country rated each song, on a scale of 1 to 10 points.[5]
1957–1961 10–1 Ten-member juries distributed 10 points among their favourite songs.
1962 3–1 Ten-member juries awarded points to their three favourite songs.
1963 5–1 Twenty-member juries awarded points to their five favourite songs.
1964–1966 5, 3, 1 / 6, 3 / 9 Ten-member juries distributed 9 points in three possible ways. If all their votes went to one single song, it got all the 9 points. If they went to two songs, they got 6 and 3 points. If they went to three or more, the top three got 5, 3 and 1 points. No jury ever gave 9 points to a single song, but Belgium used the 6-3 system in 1965.
1967–1969 10–1 Ten-member juries distributed 10 points among their favourite songs.
1970 Ten-member juries distributed 10 points among their favourite songs. A tie-breaking round was available.
1971–1973 10–2 Two-member juries, one aged over 25 and the other under 25, with at least 10 years between their ages, rated songs between 1 and 5 points.
1974 10–1 Ten-member juries distributed 10 points among their favourite songs.
1975–1996 12, 10, 8–1 All countries had at least eleven jury members, raised to sixteen in 1988, that awarded points to their top ten songs. From 1975 to 1979, the scores were announced in the order in which the songs performed. In 1980, an ascending format of going from 1-8 points, 10 points and 12 points, was introduced.
1997 Twenty countries had jury members and five countries used a televote to decide which songs would get points.[6]
1998–2000 All countries should use telephone voting to decide which songs would receive points. In exceptional circumstances, e.g. a weak telephone system, where televoting was not possible at all, a jury was used.[7][8][9]
2001–2002 Every broadcaster was free to make a choice between the full televoting system and the mixed 50/50 system, to decide which songs would receive points. In exceptional circumstances where televoting was not possible, only a jury was used.[10][11]
2003 All countries should use telephone/SMS voting to decide which songs would receive points. In exceptional circumstances where televoting was not possible at all, only a jury was used.[12]
2004–2008;
2009 (semi-finals)		 All countries use televoting and/or SMS-voting to decide which songs would receive points. Back-up juries are used by each country, with eight members, in the event of a televoting failure.
2009 (final);
2010–2012		 All countries use televoting and/or SMS-voting (50%) and five-member juries (50%). Except San Marino, which was 100% jury, due to country size. This is a so called jury–televote 50/50. In the event of a televoting failure, only a jury is used by that country. In the event of a jury failure, only televoting is used by that country. The two parts of the vote were combined by awarding 12, 10, 8–1 points to the top ten in each discipline, then combining the scores. Where two songs were tied, the televote score took precedence.
2013–2015 The same as in 2009–12, except the jury and televote are combined differently. The jurors and televoting each rank all the competing entries, rather than just their top ten. The scores are then added together. In the event of a tie, the televote score takes precedence.[13][14]
2016–2017 (12, 10, 8–1) × 2 The jury and the televote each award an independent set of points. First the jury points are announced. Then the televoting points are calculated together, before being added to the jury points, effectively doubling the points which can be awarded in total.[15]
2018–2022 The same as in 2016–17, but the points from a country's jury are now calculated using an exponential weight model, that gives more weight to higher-ranked songs and lessens the impact of one juror placing a song much lower in their rankings.[16]
2023– 12, 10, 8–1 (semi-finals)
(12, 10, 8–1) × 2 (final) 		In the semi-finals, only the televote is used to decide which songs receive points. Juries are used by each country as a back-up, in the event that the televoting cannot deliver a valid result. In the final, the jury and the televote each award an independent set of points. If the jury of a country cannot deliver a valid result, the televoting result of that country is used in its place. If the televoting cannot deliver a valid result, an aggregated result is used. In case that fails too, the jury result is used. In all three shows, online votes from viewers in non-participating countries are aggregated and awarded as one set of points.[1][2]

The most-used voting system, other than the current one, was last used for the 1974 contest. This system was used from 1957 to 1961 and from 1967 to 1969. Ten jurors in each country, each cast one vote for their favourite song. In 1969, this resulted in a four-way tie for first place, between the UK, the Netherlands, France, and Spain, with no tie-breaking procedure. A second round of voting in the event of a tie was introduced to this system in 1970.

From 1962 to 1966, a voting system similar to the current one was used. In 1962, each country awarded its top three 1, 2 and 3 points. In 1963 the top five were awarded 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 points. From 1964 to 1966, each country usually awarded its top three 1, 3 and 5 points. With the latter system, a country could choose to give points to two countries, instead of three, giving 3 to one and 6 to the other. In 1965, Belgium awarded the United Kingdom 6 points and Italy 3. Although it was possible to give one country 9 points, this never occurred.

The 1971, 1972, and 1973 contests saw the jurors "in vision" for the first time. Each country was represented by two jurors: one older than 25 and one younger, with at least 10 years' difference in their ages. Each juror gave a minimum of 1 point and a maximum of 5 points to each song. In 1974 the previous system of ten jurors was used. In 1975, the current system was introduced. Spokespeople were next seen on screen in 1994, with a satellite link to the venue.

The 2004 contest had its first semi-final, with a slight change in voting: countries which did not qualify from the semifinal would be allowed to cast votes in the final. This resulted in Ukraine's Ruslana finishing first, with a record 280 points. If the voting had been conducted as it had been from 1956 to 2003, when only finalist countries could vote, Serbia and Montenegro's Željko Joksimović would have won the contest with 190 points: a 15-point lead over Ruslana, who would have scored 175 points. To date, non-qualifying countries are still allowed to vote in the final. In 2006, Serbia and Montenegro were able to vote in the semi-final and the final, despite their non-participation due to a scandal in the selection process, which resulted in North Macedonia entering the final, instead of Poland.

With the introduction of two semi-finals in 2008, a new method of selecting finalists was created. The top nine songs, ranked by televote, qualified, along with one song selected by the back-up juries. This method, in most cases, meant that the tenth song in the televoting failed to qualify. This attracted some criticism, especially from North Macedonia, who had placed 10th in the televote in both years.[17] In 2010, the 2009 final system was used, with a combination of televoting and jury votes from each country used to select the semi-finalists.[18] Each participating country had a national jury, consisting of five music industry professionals, appointed by national broadcasters.[19][20]

Highest scores

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The Russian entry at the 2015 contest, "A Million Voices" by Polina Gagarina, became the first song to get over 300 points without winning the contest, and the only one during the era when each country delivered only one set of points. With a new voting system introduced in 2016, Australia became the first country to get over 500 points without winning the contest.

In 2017, Bulgaria became the first non-winning country to score above 600 points, as well as Portugal becoming the first country to get over 750 points – winning the contest with the song "Amar pelos dois", by Salvador Sobral. As the number of voting countries and the voting systems have varied, it may be more relevant, to compare what percentage of all points awarded in the competition each song received, computed from the published scoreboards.[21]

Since the introduction of the 2016 voting system, the Swedish entry at the 2022 contest, "Hold Me Closer" by Cornelia Jakobs, holds the record for receiving the highest percentage of maximum points from the juries, receiving 222 out of 240 points (92.50%) in the second semi-final. "Stefania" by Kalush Orchestra, winner of that year's contest for Ukraine, holds the record for receiving the highest percentage of maximum points from the televoting, receiving 439 out of 468 points (93.80%) in the final.[22]

Top five winners by percentage of all votes

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This table shows top five winning songs, by the percentage of all votes cast.

Year Country Artist Song Points Percentage of all points cast Percentage of maximum possible points
1964  Italy Gigliola Cinquetti "Non ho l'età" 49 34.03% 65.33%
1957  Netherlands Corry Brokken "Net als toen" 31 31.00% 34.44%
1967  United Kingdom Sandie Shaw "Puppet on a String" 47 27.65% 29.38%
1962  France Isabelle Aubret "Un premier amour" 26 27.08% 57.78%
1958  France André Claveau "Dors, mon amour" 27 27.00% 30.00%

Top five winners by percentage of the maximum possible score

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This table shows top five winning songs, by the percentage of the maximum possible score, a song can achieve.

Contest Country Artist Song Points Percentage of all points cast Percentage of maximum possible points
1973  Luxembourg Anne-Marie David "Tu te reconnaîtras" 129 8.66% 80.63%
1976  United Kingdom Brotherhood of Man "Save Your Kisses for Me" 164 15.71% 80.39%
1982  Germany Nicole "Ein bißchen Frieden" 161 15.42% 78.92%
1997  United Kingdom Katrina and the Waves "Love Shine a Light" 227 15.66% 78.82%
2009  Norway Alexander Rybak "Fairytale" 387 15.89% 78.66%

Top ten participants by number of points

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This table shows the top ten participating songs, both winning and non-winning, by the number of points received.

Contest Country Artist Song Points Percentage of all points cast Percentage of maximum possible points
2017  Portugal Salvador Sobral "Amar pelos dois" 758 15.56% 77.03%
2022  Ukraine Kalush Orchestra "Stefania" 631 13.60% 67.41%
2017  Bulgaria Kristian Kostov "Beautiful Mess" 615 12.62% 62.50%
2024   Switzerland Nemo "The Code" 591 13.59% 67.47%
2023  Sweden Loreen "Tattoo" 583 13.40% 66.55%
2024  Croatia Baby Lasagna "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" 547 12.57% 62.44%
2016  Ukraine Jamala "1944" 534 10.96% 54.27%
2018  Israel Netta "Toy" 529 10.61% 52.48%
2023  Finland Käärijä "Cha Cha Cha" 526 12.09% 60.05%
2021  Italy Måneskin "Zitti e buoni" 524 11.58% 57.46%

Under the 2013–15 voting system, Portugal would have received 17.12% of points in the 2017 contest.[23]

Top ten participants by number of jury points

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Contest Country Artist Song Jury points Total points Percentage of points from jury voting Percentage of maximum possible points from jury voting
2017  Portugal Salvador Sobral "Amar pelos dois" 382 758 50.40% 77.64%
2024   Switzerland Nemo "The Code" 365 591 61.76% 84.49%
2023  Sweden Loreen "Tattoo" 340 583 58.32% 78.70%
2016  Australia Dami Im "Sound of Silence" 320 511 62.62% 65.04%
2022  United Kingdom Sam Ryder "Space Man" 283 466 60.73% 60.47%
2017  Bulgaria Kristian Kostov "Beautiful Mess" 278 615 45.20% 56.50%
2018  Austria Cesár Sampson "Nobody But You" 271 342 79.24% 53.77%
2021   Switzerland Gjon's Tears "Tout l'Univers" 267 432 61.81% 58.55%
2022  Sweden Cornelia Jakobs "Hold Me Closer" 258 438 58.90% 55.13%
2018  Sweden Benjamin Ingrosso "Dance You Off" 253 274 92.34% 50.20%

Top ten participants by number of televoting points

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Contest Country Artist Song Televote points Total points Percentage of points from televoting Percentage of maximum possible points from televoting
2022  Ukraine Kalush Orchestra "Stefania" 439 631 69.57% 93.80%
2017  Portugal Salvador Sobral "Amar pelos dois" 376 758 49.60% 76.42%
2023  Finland Käärijä "Cha Cha Cha" 376 526 71.48% 84.68%
2016  Russia Sergey Lazarev "You Are the Only One" 361 491 73.52% 73.37%
2017  Bulgaria Kristian Kostov "Beautiful Mess" 337 615 54.80% 68.50%
2024  Croatia Baby Lasagna "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" 337 547 61.61% 75.90%
2016  Ukraine Jamala "1944" 323 534 60.49% 65.65%
2024  Israel Eden Golan "Hurricane" 323 375 86.13% 72.75%
2021  Italy Måneskin "Zitti e buoni" 318 524 60.69% 69.74%
2018  Israel Netta "Toy" 317 529 59.92% 62.90%

Tie-breakers

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A tie-break procedure was implemented after the 1969 contest, in which France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom tied for first place. With no tie-breaking system in place at the time, all four countries were declared joint winners. In protest, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Portugal did not participate the following year.

In 1991, the tie-break procedure was implemented when Sweden and France both had 146 points at the end of the voting. At the time, there was no televoting system, and the tie-break rule was slightly different. The first tie-break rule at the time concerned the number of 12 points each country received.[24][25] Both Sweden and France received the maximum 12 points four times. When the number of 10-point scores was counted, Sweden, represented by Carola with "Fångad av en stormvind", claimed its third victory, since it received five 10-point scores against France's two. The French entry, "Le Dernier qui a parlé..." performed by Amina, finished second, with the smallest-ever losing margin.

The current tie-break procedure was implemented in the 2016 contest. In the procedure, sometimes known as a countback, if two or more countries tie, the song receiving more points from the televote is the winner. If the songs received the same number of televote points, the song that received at least one televote point, from the greatest number of countries, is the winner. If there is still a tie, a second tie-breaker counts the number of countries, who assigned twelve televote points to each entry in the tie. Tie-breaks continue with ten points, eight points, and so on until the tie is resolved. If the tie cannot be resolved after the number of countries which assigned one point to the song is equal, the song performed earlier in the running order is declared the winner. The tie-break procedure originally applied only to first place ties, or to determine a semi-final qualifier.[26] Since 2008, it has been applied to all places.[27]

Overview of tie-breaking rules
Year Use Description
1956–1969 — No tie-breaking rules were in place.
1970–1988 Only to determine the winner. The jury decided the winner through a simple vote for their favourite.
1989–2000 The winner of a tie is the country that received more 12 points, then 10 points. If the tie cannot be broken in this way, all tied countries are winners.[28]
2001–2002 To determine the winner and the qualifiers for the following year. The winner of a tie is the country that received more 12 points, then 10 points, all the way down to 1. If the tie cannot be broken in this way, all tied countries are winners.[29]
2003 Only to determine the winner. The winner of a tie is the country that received points from more countries, then the country that received more 12 points, then 10 points, all the way down to 1. If the tie cannot be broken in this way, all tied countries are winners.[30]
2004–2006 To determine the winner and the 10th qualifier from the semi-final.
2007 The winner of a tie is the country that received points from more countries, then the country that received more 12 points, then 10 points, all the way down to 1. If the tie cannot be broken in this way, the country that performed earlier wins the tie.[31][32]
2008–2015 Used for all ties.
2016–present The winner of a tie is the country that received more points from the televoting, then the country that received points from more countries in the televoting, then the country that received more 12 points in the televoting, then 10 points, all the way down to 1. If the tie cannot be broken in this way, the country that performed earlier wins the tie.

Scoring no points

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Colour-coded map
Countries that received no points in the grand final jury voting, and the number of times for each

As each participating country casts a series of preference votes, under the current scoring system it is rare that a song fails to receive any points at all. Such a result means that the song failed to make the top ten most popular songs in any country.

The first zero points in Eurovision were scored in 1962, under a new voting system. When a country finishes with a score of zero, it is often referred to in English-language media as nul points /ˌnjuːl ˈpwæ̃/[33] or nil points /ˌnɪl ˈpɔɪnts/, albeit incorrectly. Grammatical French for "no points" is pas de points, zéro point or aucun point, but none of these phrases are used in the contest. Before the voting overhaul in 2016, no-point scores were not announced by the presenters. Following the change in the voting system, a country receiving no points from the public televote is simply announced as receiving "zero points".[34]

Before 2016

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Zero points in finals
Contest Country Artist Song
1962  Belgium Fud Leclerc "Ton nom"
 Spain Víctor Balaguer "Llámame"
 Austria Eleonore Schwarz "Nur in der Wiener Luft"
 Netherlands De Spelbrekers "Katinka"
1963  Netherlands Annie Palmen "Een speeldoos"
 Norway Anita Thallaug "Solhverv"
 Finland Laila Halme "Muistojeni laulu"
 Sweden Monica Zetterlund "En gång i Stockholm"
1964  Germany Nora Nova "Man gewöhnt sich so schnell an das Schöne"
 Portugal António Calvário "Oração"
 Yugoslavia Sabahudin Kurt "Život je sklopio krug"
  Switzerland Anita Traversi "I miei pensieri"
1965  Spain Conchita Bautista "¡Qué bueno, qué bueno!"
 Germany Ulla Wiesner "Paradies, wo bist du?"
 Belgium Lize Marke "Als het weer lente is"
 Finland Viktor Klimenko "Aurinko laskee länteen"
1966  Monaco Tereza Kesovija "Bien plus fort"
 Italy Domenico Modugno "Dio, come ti amo"
1967   Switzerland Géraldine "Quel cœur vas-tu briser ?"
1970  Luxembourg David Alexandre Winter "Je suis tombé du ciel"
1978  Norway Jahn Teigen "Mil etter mil"
1981  Norway Finn Kalvik "Aldri i livet"
1982  Finland Kojo "Nuku pommiin"
1983  Spain Remedios Amaya "¿Quién maneja mi barca?"
 Turkey Çetin Alp and The Short Waves "Opera"
1987  Turkey Seyyal Taner and Grup Locomotif "Şarkım Sevgi Üstüne"
1988  Austria Wilfried "Lisa Mona Lisa"
1989  Iceland Daníel Ágúst "Það sem enginn sér"
1991  Austria Thomas Forstner "Venedig im Regen"
1994  Lithuania Ovidijus Vyšniauskas "Lopšinė mylimai"
1997  Norway Tor Endresen "San Francisco"
 Portugal Célia Lawson "Antes do adeus"
1998   Switzerland Gunvor "Lass ihn"
2003  United Kingdom Jemini "Cry Baby"[35]
2015  Austria (host) The Makemakes "I Am Yours"
 Germany Ann Sophie "Black Smoke"

The first time a host nation ever finished with nul points was in the 2015 final, when Austria's "I Am Yours", by The Makemakes, scored zero. In 2003, following the UK's first zero score,[35] an online poll was held by OGAE UK to gauge public opinion about each zero-point entry's worthiness of the score. Spain's "¿Quién maneja mi barca?" (1983) won the poll as the song that least deserved a zero. Austria's "Lisa Mona Lisa" (1988) was determined as the song most deserving of a zero.[36]

In 2012, although it scored in the combined voting, France's "Echo (You and I)" by Anggun would have received no points if televoting alone had been used. In that year's first semi-final, although Belgium's "Would You?" by Iris received two points in the televoting-only hypothetical results from the Albanian jury, since Albania did not use televoting. Belgium would have received no official points from televoting alone.[37] In his book, Nul Points, comic writer Tim Moore interviews several of these performers about how their Eurovision score affected their careers.[38]

Since the creation of a single semi-final in 2004[39] and expansion to two semi-finals in 2008,[40] more than thirty countries vote each night – even countries which have been eliminated or have already qualified. No points are rarer. It requires a song to place less than tenth, in every country in jury voting and televote.

Semi-finals

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Zero points in semi-finals
Contest Country Artist Song
2004   Switzerland Piero and the MusicStars "Celebrate"
2009  Czech Republic Gypsy.cz "Aven Romale"

2016 onwards

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With the introduction of the 2016 voting system in semi-finals and finals, scoring no points in either the jury vote or televote is possible. An overall "nul points" were scored only once in the 2021 final.

From 2023, only televoting is used to determine the results of the semi-finals. Since this introduction, "nul points" were scored twice in the second semi-final of the 2023 contest.

In finals

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Zero points from juries and televoting
Contest Country Artist Song
2021  United Kingdom James Newman "Embers"
Zero points from juries
Contest Country Artist Song
2017  Spain Manel Navarro "Do It for Your Lover"
2019  Israel (host)[a] Kobi Marimi "Home"
2021  United Kingdom James Newman "Embers"
2022  Germany Malik Harris "Rockstars"
Zero points from televoting
Contest Country Artist Song
2016  Czech Republic Gabriela Gunčíková "I Stand"
2017  Austria Nathan Trent "Running on Air"
2019  Germany S!sters "Sister"
2021  United Kingdom James Newman "Embers"
 Spain Blas Cantó "Voy a quedarme"
 Germany Jendrik "I Don't Feel Hate"
 Netherlands (host) Jeangu Macrooy "Birth of a New Age"
2022   Switzerland Marius Bear "Boys Do Cry"
2024  United Kingdom Olly Alexander "Dizzy"

In semi-finals

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Zero points from juries
Contest Country Artist Song
2017  San Marino Valentina Monetta and Jimmie Wilson "Spirit of the Night"
Zero points from televoting
Contest Country Artist Song
2017  Malta Claudia Faniello "Breathlessly"
2018  Iceland Ari Ólafsson "Our Choice"
2019  Austria Paenda "Limits"
2021  Czech Republic Benny Cristo "Omaga"
2022  Azerbaijan Nadir Rustamli "Fade to Black"
2023  Romania Theodor Andrei "D.G.T. (Off and On)"
 San Marino Piqued Jacks "Like an Animal"

Junior Eurovision

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No entry in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest has ever received nul points. Between 2005 and 2015, each contestant began with 12 points to prevent such a result.[42] However, there has not been a situation that the 12 points received in the beginning would have remained as the sole points.[citation needed] The closest to that was Croatia in 2014, which ended up with 13 points after receiving a single point from San Marino.[43]

In October 2012, a new "Kids Jury" was introduced into the voting system. The jury consists of members aged between 10 and 15, representing each of the participating countries. A spokesperson from the jury would then announce the points 1–8, 10 and the maximum 12 as decided upon by the jury members.[44] In 2016, the Kids Jury was removed, and instead each country awarded 1–8, 10 and 12 points from both adult and kid's juries, also eliminating televoting from the contest.[45] An expert panel was present at the 2016 contest, with each of the panelists being able to award 1–8, 10 and 12 points themselves.[46] Since the 2017 contest, viewers worldwide have been allowed to vote online.

In 2018, Portugal and Wales received no points in the jury voting.[47] In 2019, Portugal again received no points in the jury voting.[48]

Regional bloc voting

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Although statistical analysis of the results from 2001 to 2005 suggests regional bloc voting,[49] it is debatable how much in each case is due to ethnic diaspora voting, a sense of ethnic kinship, political alliances or a tendency for culturally-close countries to have similar musical tastes.[50] Several countries can be categorised as voting blocs, which regularly award one another high points.[49] The most common examples are Cyprus and Greece, Moldova and Romania, Belarus and Russia, and the Nordic countries.

It is still common for countries to award points to their neighbours regularly, even if they are not part of a voting bloc. For example, Finland and Estonia or Germany and Poland, Greece and Albania or Armenia and Russia. Votes may also be based on a diaspora: Greece, Turkey, Poland, Lithuania, Russia and the former Yugoslav countries normally get high scores from Germany or the United Kingdom, Armenia gets votes from France and Belgium, Poland from Ireland, Romania from Spain and Italy, and Albania from Switzerland, Italy and San Marino. Former Eurovision TV director Bjørn Erichsen disagreed with the assertion that regional bloc voting significantly affects the contest's outcome, saying that Russia's first victory in 2008 was only possible with votes from thirty-eight of the participating countries.[51]

A 2017 study,[52] made a complete analysis of the competition from 1957 until 2017. The voting patterns change and the previous studies restrained their analysis to a particular time window where the voting scheme is homogeneous. This approach allows the sampling comparison over arbitrary periods consistent with the unbiased assumption of voting patterns. This methodology also allows for a sliding time window to accumulate a degree of collusion over the years, producing a weighted network. The previous results are supported and the changes over time provide insight into the collusive behaviours given more or less choice.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Due to an error in relation to the jury votes from Belarus, Israel appeared to receive 12 points (all from Belarus) during the broadcast of the 2019 final. This was corrected by the EBU three days after.[41]

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