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Eurovision 2016: Voting screen. Final result
STOCKHOLM 2016

Russia won televoting – Australia won jury – Ukraine won Eurovision 2016

Eurovision Song Contest 2016 ended with Ukraine as the winner, but Russia actually won the televoting and Australia won the juries votes

In this year's Eurovision Song Contest we had a new voting system introduced, where the juries and viewers votes are separately given. And here it made the distance between the national juries and the public viewers who vote very visible and clear.

The juries are watching another show than the public televoters do, but is the difference of points between them because of two different performances, or is it because that the juries weights other things than the viewers?

Eurovision 2016 results

PlaceCountrySong / ArtistJuryTelePointsRunning
1Ukraine icon211 323 534 21
2Australia icon320 191 511 13
3Russia icon130 361 491 18
4Bulgaria icon127 180 307 8
5Sweden icon122 139 261 9
6France icon148 109 257 11
7Armenia icon115 134 249 26
8Poland icon7 222 229 12
9Lithuania icon104 96 200 16
10Belgium icon130 51 181 1
11Netherlands icon114 39 153 3
12Malta icon137 16 153 22
13Austria icon31 120 151 24
14Israel icon124 11 135 7
15Latvia icon69 63 132 20
16Italy icon90 34 124 6
17Azerbaijan icon44 73 117 4
18Serbia icon35 80 115 15
19Hungary icon52 56 108 5
20Georgia icon80 24 104 23
21Cyprus icon43 53 96 14
22Spain icon67 10 77 19
23Croatia icon40 33 73 17
24United Kingdom icon54 8 62 25
25Czechia icon41  41 2
26Germany icon1 10 11 10

Most clearly is Poland (8th):
The viewers awarded Michał Szpak from Poland a third place, while the juries placed him 25th! And if the juries were to decide 100% of the result, Poland wouldn't even have qualified to the Grand Final.

Also Israel's votes were mixed (14th):
In Semi-final 2 Hovi Star was the 4th best according to the juries, but the 3rd worst if you asked the public voters.

Malta had succes among the juries (12th):
The juries judged Malta's Ira Losco to be in 4th position, but the public televoters were not so kind: 21st position if the televoters should decide 100%.

Semi-final 2 was actually won by the Grand Final's runner-up Australia. Ukraine came 2nd

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