at , defeating the UK’s at the final hurdle.
When the results were being announced, it was revealed that , Azerbaijan, Germany, Belgium, France, Georgia, Austria and the Czech Republic had awarded their coveted 12 points to the UK, much to viewers’ surprise.
The UK soared to the top of the scoreboard after the jury votes with 283 points, with Sweden in second place with 258 points and Spain placing third with 231 points before the televote confirmed the winner.
As the hosts and commentator Graham Norton kept reminding viewers (and acts) while results were being announced, the televote had the power to change it all, and indeed it did.
a huge 439 points in the public vote, resulting in them ending the night on 631 points, securing their win.
The UK, who has had five Eurovision winners in the past, last won in 1997, but actually got 0 points last year, and have finished in last place three times.
The voting is divided into two parts – with 50 per cent of each country’s final score decided by jury votes, and the remaining half down to the public vote.
Ranked in order of overall points, the split between televotes and jury votes for each act competing in last night’s grand finale is here:
- Ukraine, 631 – 439 televotes and 192 jury votes
- United Kingdom, 466 – 183 televotes and 283 jury votes
- Spain, 459 – 228 televotes and 231 jury votes
- Sweden, 438 – 180 televotes and 258 jury votes
- Serbia, 312 – 225 televotes and 87 jury votes
- Italy, 268 – 110 televotes and 158 jury votes
- Moldova, 253 – 239 televotes and 14 jury votes
- Greece, 215 – 57 televotes and 158 jury votes
- Portugal, 207 – 36 televotes and 171 jury votes
- Norway, 182 – 146 televotes and 36 jury votes
- Netherlands, 171 – 42 televotes and 129 jury votes
- Poland, 151 – 105 televotes and 46 jury votes
- Estonia, 141 – 98 televotes and 43 jury votes
- Lithuania, 128 – 93 televotes and 35 jury votes
- Australia, 125 – 2 televotes and 123 jury votes
- Azerbaijan, 106 – 3 televotes and 103 jury votes
- Switzerland, 78 – 0 televotes and 78 jury votes
- Romania, 65 – 53 televotes and 12 jury votes
- Belgium, 64 – 5 televotes and 59 jury votes
- Armenia, 61 – 21 televotes and 40 jury votes
- Finland, 38 – 26 televotes and 12 jury votes
- Czech Republic, 38 – 5 televotes and 33 jury votes
- Iceland, 20 – 10 televotes and 10 jury votes
- France, 17 – 8 televotes and 9 jury votes
- Germany, 6 – 6 televotes and 0 jury votes
While the televotes boosted Ukraine to the top of the leader board, some countries like Iceland and France had similar effects on both the jury and those watching at home.
Switzerland left little impact on the public voting, but managed to score decently through the jury, whereas Moldova managed to gain immense support from voters at home, despite not ranking as well with the jury.
The results of the televotes being revealed follows the European Broadcasting Union during the course of the second set of semi-finals earlier in the week.Â
In a statement shared on the Eurovision website, the union said: ‘In the analysis of jury voting by the European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) pan-European voting partner after the Second Dress Rehearsal of the Second Semi-Final of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, certain irregular voting patterns were identified in the results of six countries.
‘In order to comply with the Contest’s Voting Instructions, the EBU worked with its voting partner to calculate a substitute aggregated result for each country concerned for both the Second-Semi Final and the Grand Final (calculated based on the results of other countries with similar voting records).
This process was acknowledged by the Independent Voting Monitor.’
It continued: ‘The EBU takes any suspected attempts to manipulate the voting at the Eurovision Song Contest extremely seriously and has the right to remove such votes in accordance with the Official Voting Instructions, irrespective of whether or not such votes are likely to influence the results and/or outcome of the voting.’
The second instalment of the semi-finals took place on Thursday evening and saw 18 countries, including Ireland, San Marino, Malta, Israel, Belgium and Finland.
It has not been revealed which countries had their juries removed.
