Eurovision 1974 Results: Voting & Points
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Eurovision 1974 Scoreboard
| 1 | Sweden | 24 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2 | Italy | 18 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3 | Netherlands | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| 4 | United Kingdom | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Luxembourg | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 4 | Monaco | 14 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 7 | Israel | 11 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Ireland | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | Spain | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 9 | Belgium | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Greece | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Yugoslavia | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 13 | Finland | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Norway | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Germany | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Switzerland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Portugal | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
Eurovision Song Contest 1974 result: Sweden won with the song "Waterloo" by ABBA with 24 points
Date: Saturday 6 April 1974
Location: The Dome, Brighton, United Kingdom
Broadcaster: BBC
Host: Catherine (Katie) Boyle
Voting: Each participating country had 10 jury members, and each jury member could award one point to one song
Interval act: The Wombles
Debuting countries: Greece
In 1974 the French President, Georges Pompidou, died during Eurovision week. The French broadcaster decided to withdraw from the contest. The funeral was held the day of the contest
The Portuguese song from 1974 "E Depois Do Adeus" started a revolution in Portugal. The song was played on an independent radio station in Lisbon on 24 April, and was one of two secret signals which alerted the rebel captains and soldiers to begin the Carnation Revolution against the Estado Novo regime
United Kingdom gave zero points to ABBA in 1974
