Voting patterns
Voting alliances and rivalries
Success stories
What can history tell us about the
Eurovision Song Contest 2019?
The UK has two of the four most successful entries
Eurovision Song Contest
Previous success at the
As a percentage of possible jury points won
Luxembourg
United Kingdom
Germany
United Kingdom
Norway
Ireland
Sweden
Portugal
Belgium
Sweden
80.4%
78.9%
78.8%
78.7%
Tu te reconnaîtras
Save Your Kisses for Me
Ein Bißchen Frieden
Love Shine a Light
Fairytale
Rock 'n' Roll Kids
Heroes
Amar pelos dois
J'aime la vie
Euphoria
1973
1976
1982
1997
2009
1994
2015
2017
1986
2012
129
164
161
227
387
226
365
382
176
372
Points
160
204
204
288
492
288
468
492
228
492
Maximum possible
As %
80.6%
78.5%
78.0%
77.6%
77.2%
75.6%
The UK performs better when Labour are in government
Labour
Conservative
Largest party in government
UK entries in total
37
24
UK wins in total
(2.7%)
(16.7%)
1
4
UK top 3 finishes
(32.4%)
(45.8%)
12
11
Most jury points in finals since the current scoring system was introduced in 1975
Sweden
United Kingdom
Ireland
France
Germany
Greece
Norway
Israel
Russia
Denmark
4,367
3,397
3,017
2,904
2,886
2,781
2,725
2,597
2,595
2,427
Jury points
Most jury points per final appearance since the current scoring system was introduced in 1975
Australia
Bulgaria
Russia
Azerbaijan
Ukraine
Serbia
Armenia
Sweden
Italy
Latvia
Georgia
United Kingdom
194
166
130
129
128
116
112
104
92
91
87
77
Strongest alliances
The following pairs of nations have always given each other an above average-number of points in the final:
The following pairs of nations have never given each other an above-average score in a final:
Luxembourg
Malta
Ireland
Switzerland
Australia
Eurovision Song Contest
Voting alliances and rivalries at the
The following pairs of nations have given each other an above-average score over 90% of the time in finals:
60.0%
Above-average votes
60.0%
57.7%
52.6%
50.0%
Romania
Moldova
21
19
Ukraine
Azerbaijan
13
Macedonia
Albania
12
Serbia
Bosnia
9
Turkey
Azerbaijan
98.1%
Greece
Cyprus
95.2%
Greece
Albania
95.0%
Latvia
Estonia
Russia
Azerbaijan
Lithuania
Latvia
Macedonia
Croatia
94.7%
94.4%
94.4%
Russia
Belarus
94.1%
Turkey
Albania
Macedonia
Bosnia
Georgia
Armenia
93.8%
93.3%
92.9%
Croatia
Bosnia
90.9%
Biggest rivalries
Portugal
Bosnia
Iceland
Bosnia
Cyprus
Bosnia
31
30
28
Germany
Azerbaijan
Spain
Belarus
21
20
20
Latvia
Turkey
Countries participating in 2019 with the highest and lowest shares of above-average votes for the UK in previous finals:
Who are the
UK’s
biggest allies
and enemies?
Armenia
Romania
Iceland
Moldova
Belarus
16.7%
16.7%
16.1%
7.1%
6.7%
Total votes
Total votes
It’s better to perform late
More than twice as many winners have been among the last five to perform than among the first five
1956 to 1972
1973 to 1977
1978 to 1990
1991 to 1998
1999 to 2018
Hungary
Lithuania
Poland
Estonia
Israel
Eurovision Song Contest
Voting patterns at the
Among first five
10
winners
Place in running order
only one winner was among the first 10 to sing (Sweden went on 10th in 2015) … whereas 7 winners were among the last 10.
English is the dominant language
Of the 66 previous winners, almost half chose to perform in English:
English
23
French
14
Dutch, Hebrew
3
German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
2
Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Danish, Portuguese, Serbian
1
Number of songs performed entirely in English on behalf of a non-English speaking country:
(Sweden in 1965)
1
18
0
8
(all Malta)
289
Since 1999 there have never been fewer than 10 English entries by non-English speaking countries.
In 2015 only 5 out of the 27 songs in the final weren’t performed entirely in English.
winners
Among last five
23
In the last 10 years:
only one winner was among the first 5 to sing (Turkey went on 4th in 2003) … whereas 5 winners were among the final 5.
In the last 20 years:
Which nations tend to follow the crowd?
Here are the nations whose juries give the most popular song an above-average score most often:
Above-average scores
87.5%
78.9%
71.4%
69.6%
68.4%
Below-average scores
Azerbaijan
Moldova
San Marino
Armenia
Albania
10.0%
21.4%
22.2%
25.0%
26.7%
… and here are the nations who hardly ever give the eventual winner a good score:
Female acts are more successful than male ones
Female
Mixed
Male
38
(1)
(11)
11
(5)
Solo
(Group)
However in the last 10 years, male solo artists have won more points than female ones on average:
Female
Male
2.68
2.17
Average points awarded
The following nations participating in the 2019 contest have favoured male solo artists the most:
Germany
Czech Rep
Hungary
Netherlands
Austria
1.80
1.68
1.88
1.89
1.92
3.45
3.17
3.35
3.32
2.97
1.66
1.49
1.47
1.43
1.05
Female
Male
solo entries
solo entries
Difference
Only five of this year’s participants have awarded more points to female solo artists:
Average score given to...
Macedonia
Moldova
Russia
Ireland
Israel
2.73
2.43
2.53
2.47
2.55
2.17
2.04
2.19
2.28
2.43
0.56
0.39
0.33
0.19
0.12
Average score given to...
Female
Difference
Male
solo entries
solo entries
