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Eurovision 2026 Complete & Independent Guide PAPERBACK
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Eurovision 2026 Complete & Independent Guide HARDCOVER
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Introduction to the Edition
The landmark 70th Eurovision Song Contest was hosted this year by the city of Vienna, following JJ’s win in 2025 with “Wasted Love”. This was the Austria’s third time as hosts and the first since 2015. The 16,152-seat Wiener Stadthalle was selected to stage the event. The hosts for broadcaster ORF were presenter Victoria Swarovski and actor Michael Ostrowski.
This was one of the most controversial Contests in recent years, with five countries boycotting this year’s competition over the participation of Israel and the war in Gaza. Thirty-five countries participated, two fewer than in 2024. We missed the protesting countries Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain and Slovenia but welcomed back Moldova, Bulgaria and Romania.
There was a change to the voting this year, juries voted in the semi-finals for the first time since 2022 and the number of jurors per country was increased from five to seven.
Congratulations go to first time winners Bulgaria and Dara who won with “Bangaranga”. There was the unusual phenomenon of the winning country finishing first in both the public vote and the jury vote. There was still a noticeable imbalance between the 12 points distribution this year though, only one jury awarded Bulgaria maximum points yet the public of nine countries believed Bangaranga was the best song. Israel and Romania also finished in the top three, Romania’s best result since 2010.
The automatically qualifying countries’ performances were mixed again this year. Italy were once more the most successful, finishing fifth, and France finished eleventh but Germany came third last, and the United Kingdom yet again received no points from the televote, finishing last with just a single point.
We’ve taken the opportunity this anniversary year to revamp the content of our Guide and for its 18th edition we have included many new statistics and visualisations.
Contents
Eurovision Winners since 1956
Section One: Qualifying for the 2026 Contest
National competitions or internal selection QR links to the official videos for each country
Section Two: Eurovision 2026 Contest Details & Votes
2026 First Semi-Final performers and televoting results
2026 Second Semi-Final performers and televoting results
2026 Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2026 Final: Voting Order & Spokespersons
Round by Round voting & changes to scoreboard: Jury Voting
Round by Round voting & changes to scoreboard: Public Televoting & combined results
Previous voting sytem: First Semi-Final results
Previous voting sytem: Second Semi-Final results
Previous voting sytem: Final results
Country-by-Country History
Section Three: Statistics & Analysis
Predicting the Winners, the history of votes for the best song
Predicting the Winners, who gives the most 12's and who gives nothing
Marcel Bezençon Awards
OGAE poll result
Internal selection or national competition - the best selection basis?
Winners' Ages & Genders since 1956
2019 Contestants profile - singers & backing performers
Most successful type of act by year and by country
Language history by country
Historical use of English
Population weighted voting
Most Successful Countries League Table
Least Successful Countries League Table
Most Finishes in Top 3
Most Finishes in Bottom 3
Most successful countries adjusted for population size
Most successful country never to have won
Most wins in fewest appearances
A Tale of Two Countries - the rise of Sweden and the decline of Ireland
Best & worst at qualifying from the semi-finals
Best semi-final to compete in
Most consecutive semi-final failures
Unluckiest semi-finals for each country
When voters change their minds - voting in semis compared to the final
Most successful song this century
Best songs not to qualify for the final
Performance of the "Big 4/5"
Running Order analysis, where is best to perform? Previous voting system
Running Order analysis, where is best to perform? New voting System
Winners & losers position in the order of performance since 1975
Double Douze!
Are You Sure? When Juries and the Public Don't Agree
When Juries and the Public Don't Agree - largest differences between points awarded
Highest number of 12's received by one country
Lowest number of 12's received by a winning country
12 Points Go To… a 10 year history by country
History of 12 points from juries and public since 2016
Sharing The Love: the concentration of points awarded
The host country's performance since 1975
Nil Points!
Highest scores in finals
Largest and smallest winning margins
Performance of debutant countries since 1956
The Long Wait for a Win
League Table of Appearances
Closest voting relationships
Each Country's Best Friends & their 10 year voting history
The most one-sided voting - who doesn't reciprocate?
The least friendly pairs of countries: all results since 1975
The least friendly pairs of countries: the effect of the public vote from 2016 onwards
East v West - the impact of geographical voting
Bloc voting by juries and the public in the Final
Complete country-by-country voting analysis since 1975 - who votes for who?
Appendix: Contest Details 1956 - 2025
Contest performers, writers and composers for each year
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