The European Broadcasting Union released the official jury and televoting results this morning, and they reveal the first split between the professional jury and televoters since the new voting system was introduced in 2009. .
Highlights:
- The public crowned Azerbaijan’s Ell & Nikki winners of the televote, while the professional jury preferred Italy’s Raphael Gualazzi
- Ell & Nikki edged out Sweden’s Eric Saade by just two points to win the televote. Unfortunately for Saade, he finished a disappointing ninth among the jury (while Azerbaijan placed second).
- Italy won the jury vote in a landslide. Gualazzi racked up 251 points. Ell & Nikki finished second with the jury with 182 points.
- The United Kingdom’s Blue finished fifth in the televote, but a disastrous 22nd in the jury vote. (You’ll recall the Wiwi and Vebooboo witnessed Blue’s appalling performance during the jury final).
- Similary, Russia’s Alexey Vorobyov placed seventh among televoters, but dead last with the jury.
- Slovenia’s Maja Keuc, on the other hand, placed fourth with the jury, but only 22nd with voters.
- The televote also hurt Denmark’s A Friend in London. They placed third among the jury, but only 18th with the public.
- Surprisingly, Ireland’s Jedward did better with the jury (sixth place) than they did with the public (tenth).
Televoting results
Rank | Country | Points |
1 | Azerbaijan | 223 |
2 | Sweden | 221 |
3 | Greece | 176 |
4 | Ukraine | 168 |
5 | U.K. | 166 |
6 | Bosnia | 151 |
7 | Georgia | 138 |
8 | Russia | 138 |
9 | Germany | 113 |
10 | Ireland | 101 |
11 | Italy | 099 |
12 | Moldova | 098 |
13 | Serbia | 089 |
14 | Romania | 079 |
15 | France | 076 |
16 | Spain | 073 |
17 | Hungary | 064 |
18 | Denmark | 061 |
19 | Iceland | 060 |
20 | Lithuania | 055 |
21 | Finland | 047 |
22 | Slovenia | 039 |
23 | Estonia | 032 |
24 | Austria | 025 |
25 | Switzerland | 002 |
Jury results
Rank | Country | Points |
1 | Italy | 251 |
2 | Azerbaijan | 182 |
3 | Denmark | 168 |
4 | Slovenia | 160 |
5 | Austria | 145 |
6 | Ireland | 119 |
7 | Ukraine | 117 |
8 | Serbia | 111 |
9 | Sweden | 106 |
10 | Germany | 104 |
11 | Bosnia | 090 |
12 | France | 090 |
13 | Romania | 086 |
14 | Greece | 084 |
15 | Moldova | 082 |
16 | Finland | 075 |
17 | Georgia | 079 |
18 | Estonia | 074 |
19 | Iceland | 072 |
20 | Lithuania | 066 |
21 | Hungary | 060 |
22 | U.K. | 057 |
23 | Switzerland | 053 |
24 | Spain | 038 |
25 | Russia | 025 |
So who did the jury help, and who did it hurt? The following chart shows the difference between the Jury Points and the Televoting Points (Jury – Televote ). The greater the number, the more the jury helped a contestant. The lower the number, the more the jury hurt them. The jury showed plenty of affection for Italy and Austria, both of whom were returning to Eurovision after an absence. Perhaps they were told to keep the returning countries happy to ensure another 43-nation show next year? (Then again, the jury hurt Hungary who was also returning from an absence). Eurovision stalwarts Sweden and Russia suffered the most at the hands of the jury.
Italy | 152 |
Slovenia | 121 |
Austria | 120 |
Denmark | 107 |
Switzerland | 51 |
Estonia | 42 |
Finland | 27 |
Serbia | 22 |
Ireland | 18 |
France | 14 |
Iceland | 12 |
Lithuania | 11 |
Romania | 7 |
Hungary | -4 |
Germany | -9 |
Moldova | -16 |
Spain | -35 |
Azerbaijan | -41 |
Ukraine | -51 |
Georgia | -59 |
Bosnia | -61 |
Greece | -92 |
U.K. | -109 |
Russia | -113 |
Sweden | -115 |
Now check out the complete jury and televoting results for the first semi-final and the second semi-final.
Greece send an amazing song in ’11 esc and people’s voting proves it…
PLEASE TAKE OUT THE JURY VOTING
The jury HATES pop, jury HATES dancing songs that us young people like, before the jury voting eurovision was more exciting, the russian singer of 2011 was a typical noaways pop song and OF COURSE they jury HATES it, Eric Saade anothe pop singer jury DOESNT like him, this year norway entry jury DOESNT like it, come on, if the jury had been existing since 2000, Turkey 2003 would have never won, Dima Bilan would have never won, Ukraine 2004 would have never won, i hate jury…
It’s clear that Finland suffered performing first in the final in televotes, no matter what it’s been said. In semifinal Finland was ahead Russia and Georgia
in final those two reached almost 100 points more. That’s almost unbelievable !
We have no idea where this photo comes from. The person who uploaded it says “jury final” but how can we even know that’s true? During the week of Eurovision there are SEVERAL MOCK readings of points so that the announcers (in Germany and all over Europe) can practice. You need to verify/explain this photo before posting fracas
So tell me how the jury placings translate from this which was the scoreboard on jury night http://twitpic.com/548xru
I liked Blue’s song, and their performance in the final. But I was inside the arena for the jury final and confirm that they were awful. Duncan forgot his lyrics at one point, and Antony Costa’s voice cracked towards the end when he does his part. People in the audience shrieked. You can have a big name and a good song, but if you don’t deliver when it counts then it’s OVER.
The whole jury vote was geared to prevent the country that this year had an act that would garner high public votes from winning. Appalling? My rear end.
“Blue’s appalling performance during the jury final” ? Anyone who calls this appalling needs a hearing and sight test even more than anyone who could vote this fourth from bottom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HJ4HDzSvAI
Even given the poor sound of this amateur video, there is no way an unbiased observer can call this mediocre, never mind appalling.
“Blue’s appalling performance during the jury final” ? Anyone who calls this appalling needs a hearing and sight test even more than anyone who could vote this fourth from bottom
.youtube.com/watch?v=_HJ4HDzSvAI Even given the poor sound of this amateur video, there is no way an unbiased observer can call this mediocre, never mind appalling.
“Blue’s appalling performance during the jury final” ? Anyone who calls this appalling needs a hearing and sight test even more than anyone who could vote this fourth from bottom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HJ4HDzSvAI Even given the poor sound of this amateur video, there is no way an unbiased observer can call this mediocre, never mind appalling.
The most surprising to me are very low total scores assigned by jury for Hungary and United Kingdom and very high jury score for shapeless and colorless song from Austria. It seems that jury used song from Austria to puch down other unwanted songs and placed their promoted songs above Austria. Really bad.
Aleksey Vorobyov is the 7-th in the scoreboard of the Eurovision site (Georgia is the 8-th)!
I expect much bigger gap in semifinals because songs from Poland and Norway were among 4 best expected in semifinal 1 and ended up very terribly.
So now we are still waiting for the breakdown of both semifinals. There we should see many more surprises. As I see jury wanted to make a kind of overinvitation for Italy giving its (good but not really Eurovision type) song too many points. The jury was probably afraid that the low score from televoting could scary Italy for next 13 years. Undoubtedly “money talks” with its own language.