The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was the 41st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 May 1996 at the in Oslo, Norway, and presented by Ingvild Bryn and Morten Harket. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (NRK), who staged the event after winning the for with the song "" by Secret Garden.
Broadcasters from thirty countries submitted entries to the contest, with a non-public, audio-only qualifying round held two months before the final to reduce the number of participants from 30 to 23. The entries from , , , , , , and were subsequently eliminated, which resulted in Germany being absent from the contest for the first and to date only time.
The winner was with the song "The Voice", written by Brendan Graham and performed by Eimear Quinn. This gave the nation a record-extending seventh contest win, its fourth win in five years, with Graham also recording his second win as a songwriter in three years after having written the winning song in . , , , and rounded out the top five, with Croatia, Estonia, and , which placed sixth, achieving their best results to date. This was the final contest where the results were determined solely by jury voting, with a trial use of televoting in the leading to widespread adoption from onwards.
Location
thumb|200px|, Oslo – host venue of the 1996 contest
The 1996 contest took place in Oslo, Norway, following the country's victory at the with the song "", performed by Secret Garden. It was the second time that Norway had hosted the contest, following the staged in Bergen. The chosen venue was the , an indoor arena opened in 1990 and located in the district of the city, which has hosted music concerts, ice hockey matches, and the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert. Around 6,000 spectators were present in the venue during the contest.
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sticky-header"
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|+ Eurovision Song Contest 1996 participants
|-
! scope="col" | Country
! scope="col" | Broadcaster
! scope="col" | Artist
! scope="col" | Song
! scope="col" | Language
! scope="col" | Songwriter(s)
! scope="col" | Conductor
|-
! scope="row" |
| ORF
|
| ""
| German
|
| Mischa Krausz
|-
! scope="row" |
| BRTN
| Lisa del Bo
| ""
| Dutch
|
| Bob Porter
|-
! scope="row" |
| RTVBiH
| Amila Glamočak
| ""
| Bosnian
|
| Sinan Alimanović
|-
! scope="row" |
| HRT
| Maja Blagdan
| ""
| Croatian
|
| Alan Bjelinski
|-
! scope="row" |
| CyBC
| Constantinos
| "" <small>()</small>
| Greek
|
| Stavros Lantsias
|-
! scope="row" |
| ETV
| Maarja-Liis Ilus and Ivo Linna
| ""
| Estonian
|
| Tarmo Leinatamm
|-
! scope="row" |
| YLE
| Jasmine
| ""
| Finnish
| Timo Niemi
| Olli Ahvenlahti
|-
! scope="row" |
|
| Dan Ar Braz and
| ""
| Breton
| Dan Ar Braz
| Fiachra Trench
|-
! scope="row" |
| ERT
| Marianna Efstratiou
| ""<br /><small>()</small>
| Greek
|
|
|-
! scope="row" |
| RÚV
| Anna Mjöll
| ""
| Icelandic
|
| Ólafur Gaukur Þórhallsson
|-
! scope="row" |
| RTÉ
| Eimear Quinn
| "The Voice"
| English
| Brendan Graham
| Noel Kelehan
|-
! scope="row" |
| PBS
| Miriam Christine
| "In a Woman's Heart"
| English
|
| Paul Abela
|-
! scope="row" |
| NOS
| Maxine and Franklin Brown
| ""
| Dutch
|
| Dick Bakker
|-
! scope="row" |
| NRK
| Elisabeth Andreassen
| ""
| Norwegian
|
| Frode Thingnæs
|-
! scope="row" |
| TVP
| Kasia Kowalska
| ""
| Polish
|
|
|-
! scope="row" |
| RTP
| Lúcia Moniz
| ""
| Portuguese
|
| Pedro Osório
|-
! scope="row" |
| STV
| Marcel Palonder
| ""
| Slovak
|
| Juraj Burian
|-
! scope="row" |
| RTVSLO
| Regina
| ""
| Slovene
| Aleksander Kogoj
| Jože Privšek
|-
! scope="row" |
| TVE
| Antonio Carbonell
| ""
| Spanish
|
|
|-
! scope="row" |
| SVT
| One More Time
| ""
| Swedish
|
| Anders Berglund
|-
! scope="row" |
| SRG SSR
|
| ""
| French
| Régis Mounir
| Rui dos Reis
|-
! scope="row" |
| TRT
| Şebnem Paker
| ""
| Turkish
|
|
|-
! scope="row" |
| BBC
| Gina G
| "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit"
| English
|
| Ernie Dunstall
|}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
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|+ Entires which failed to progress from the qualifying round
|-
! scope="col" | Country
! scope="col" | Broadcaster
! scope="col" | Artist
! scope="col" | Song
! scope="col" | Language
! scope="col" | Songwriter(s)
|-
! scope="row" |
| DR
| and
| ""
| Danish
|
|-
! scope="row" |
| NDR
|
| "Planet of Blue"
| German
|
|-
! scope="row" |
| MTV
| Gjon Delhusa
| ""
| Hungarian
| Gjon Delhusa
|-
! scope="row" |
| IBA
|
| "" <small>()</small>
| Hebrew
|
|-
! scope="row" |
| MRT
| Kaliopi
| "" <small>()</small>
| Macedonian
| Kaliopi
|-
! scope="row" |
| TVR
| Monica Anghel and
| ""
| Romanian
|
|-
! scope="row" |
| RTR
|
| "" <small>()</small>
| Russian
|
|}
Production
thumb|[[Oslo City Hall, location of the welcome reception]]
thumb|right|In addition to serving as co-presenter of the 1996 contest, [[Morten Harket (pictured in 2013) also performed as the show's opening act.]]
The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was produced by the Norwegian public broadcaster (NRK). Odd Arvid Strømstad served as executive producer, Pål Veiglum served as director, Bjarte Ulfstein served as designer, and Frode Thingnæs served as musical director, leading the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. A separate musical director could be nominated by each participating delegation to lead the orchestra during its country's performance, with the host musical director also available to conduct for those countries which did not nominate their own conductor. On behalf of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the event was overseen by Christine Marchal-Ortiz as scrutineer.
The show was presented by the Norwegian journalist and television presenter Ingvild Bryn and the Norwegian singer Morten Harket, lead vocalist of the Norwegian band a-ha. The contest underwent a re-brand for this edition, as NRK set out to improve the image of the competition and broaden its audience appeal. The event was referred to by the hosts and through on-screen captions as Eurosong '96, the only occasion in which this contraction was officially used to refer to the event.
NRK introduced visual effects to the contest for the first time. Computer-generated imagery (CGI) was featured as overlays during the broadcast of the competing entries, and the voting segment was conducted via chroma key technology built by Silicon Graphics; during this segment host Ingvild Bryn was situated in the "blue room", a special area to the side of the stage with a blue-coloured background, which allowed the contest scoreboard to be rendered virtually using CGI. The chroma key virtual display also included live footage of the artists in the green room backstage, as well as the video feeds of each country's spokespersons as they delivered their country's points.
Format
Each participating broadcaster submitted one song, which was required to be no longer than three minutes in duration and performed in the language, or one of the languages, of the country which it represented. A maximum of six performers were allowed on stage during each country's performance, and all participants were required to have reached the age of 16 in the year of the contest. Each entry could utilise all or part of the live orchestra and could use instrumental-only backing tracks, however any backing tracks used could only include the sound of instruments featured on stage being mimed by the performers.
For the 1996 contest a trial qualification process replaced the relegation system used from 1993 to 1995, whereby the lowest-ranked countries in each final were eliminated from the following year's contest. Under the new procedure, an audio preselection was organised for all participating countries, apart from the host country Norway, which received an automatic right to compete in the final, to be joined by an additional 22 countries. National juries in all competing countries, including Norway, listened to the submitted entries on audio tape, with juries required to listen to all songs three times before voting. Each of the eight members on each country's jury awarded their favourite song twelve points, their second-favourite ten points, their third-favourite eight points, with subsequent points being awarded consecutively down to each juror's tenth-favourite song being awarded one point, with the points awarded by all jurors being totalled to determine each country's top ten songs which were awarded points in the same manner. The full results of how individual juries had voted was not intended to be revealed publicly, but the full breakdown has since become available.
Voting procedure
The results of the 1996 contest were determined using the scoring system introduced in : each country awarded twelve points to its favourite entry, followed by ten points to its second favourite, and then awarded points in decreasing value from eight to one for the remaining songs which featured in the country's top ten, with countries unable to vote for their own entry. The points awarded by each country were determined by an assembled jury of sixteen individuals, which was required to be split evenly between members of the public and music professionals, between men and women, and by age. Each jury member voted in secret and awarded between one and ten votes to each participating song, excluding that from their own country and with no abstentions permitted. The votes of each member were collected following the country's performance and then tallied by the non-voting jury chairperson to determine the points to be awarded. In any cases where two or more songs in the top ten received the same number of votes, a show of hands by all jury members was used to determine the final placing. Individuals who had sat on a jury for the qualifying round were barred from sitting on a jury for the final. The individuals who provided messages for each country are shown below, alongside the position which they held at the time of the contest and the language in which they provided their message. Additionally Macedonia's first attempt to compete in the contest is not considered a debut entry by the EBU, with the nation eventually going on to make its official televised debut in .
Hungary and tied on the same score for the final qualification place, however Finland qualified for the contest due to them having received the highest individual score (8 points) compared to Hungary (7 points).
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+ Results of the qualifying round of the Eurovision Song Contest 1996
|-
! scope="col" |
! scope="col" | Country
! scope="col" | Artist
! scope="col" | Song
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Points
! scope="col" | Place
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 1
|
|
| ""
| 80
| 6
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 2
|
|
| ""
| 29
| 21
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 3
|
|
| ""
| 45
| 12
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 4
|
|
| ""
| 67
| 8
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 5
|
| Constantinos
| ""
| 42
| 15
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 6
|
| Leon
| "Planet of Blue"
| 24
| 24
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 7
|
| and Martin Loft
| ""
| 22
| 25
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 8
|
| and Ivo Linna
| ""
| 106
| 5
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 9
|
|
| ""
| 43
| 14
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 10
|
| Jasmine
| ""
| 26
| 22
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 11
|
| and
| ""
| 55
| 11
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 12
|
|
| "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit"
| 153
| 3
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 13
|
|
| ""
| 45
| 12
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 14
|
|
| ""
| 30
| 19
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 15
|
|
| ""
| 26
| 23
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 16
|
|
| "The Voice"
| 198
| 2
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 17
|
|
| ""
| 12
| 28
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 18
|
|
| ""
| 59
| 10
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 19
|
| Kaliopi
| ""
| 14
| 26
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 20
|
| Miriam Christine
| "In a Woman's Heart"
| 138
| 4
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 21
|
| Maxine and Franklin Brown
| ""
| 63
| 9
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 22
|
|
| ""
| 42
| 15
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 23
|
|
| ""
| 32
| 18
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 24
|
| and Sincron
| ""
| 11
| 29
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 25
|
|
| ""
| 14
| 27
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 26
|
| One More Time
| ""
| 227
| 1
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 27
|
| Regina
| ""
| 30
| 19
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 28
|
|
| ""
| 38
| 17
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:navajowhite;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 29
|
|
| ""
| 69
| 7
|}
Final<span class="anchor" id="Results"></span><span class="anchor" id="Participants and results"></span>
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thumb|right|250px|[[Eimear Quinn, the winning artist of the Eurovision Song Contest 1996]]
The contest took place on 18 May 1996 at 21:00 (CEST) and lasted 3 hours and 7 minutes.
The winner was , represented by the song "The Voice", written by Brendan Graham and performed by Eimear Quinn. This was Ireland's seventh contest win, extending its record achieved in 1994, as well as its fourth contest win in five years following victories in the , and 1994 contests. Graham recorded his second contest win in three years as a songwriter, having written the winning song of the 1994 contest "Rock 'n' Roll Kids", and thus became one of five individuals to have won the contest more than once as an artist or songwriter up to that point in time, alongside Willy van Hemert, Yves Dessca, Johnny Logan and Rolf Løvland. , and achieved their highest placings to date by finishing fourth, fifth and sixth respectively, while finished in last place for the eighth time.
During the announcement of the Spanish votes, the Spanish spokesperson Belén Fernández de Henestrosa referred to the Netherlands as "Holland", which was misheard by Ingvild Bryn as "Poland" and which resulted in the Spanish six points being incorrectly attributed to the latter country.
|-
! scope="col" |
! scope="col" | Country
! scope="col" | Artist
! scope="col" | Song
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Points
! scope="col" | Place
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 1
|
|
| ""
| 57
| 12
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 2
|
|
| "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit"
| 77
| 8
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 3
|
|
| ""
| 17
| 20
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 4
|
|
| ""
| 92
| 6
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 5
|
| Constantinos
| ""
| 72
| 9
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 6
|
| Miriam Christine
| "In a Woman's Heart"
| 68
| 10
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 7
|
|
| ""
| 98
| 4
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 8
|
|
| ""
| 68
| 10
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 9
|
|
| ""
| 22
| 16
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 10
|
|
| ""
| 36
| 14
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 11
|
| and Ivo Linna
| ""
| 94
| 5
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 12
|
|
| ""
| 114
| 2
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 13
|
| and
| ""
| 18
| 19
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 14
|
| Regina
| ""
| 16
| 21
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 15
|
| Maxine and Franklin Brown
| ""
| 78
| 7
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 16
|
|
| ""
| 22
| 16
|- style="font-weight:bold; background:gold;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 17
|
|
| "The Voice"
| 162
| 1
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 18
|
| Jasmine
| ""
| 9
| 23
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 19
|
|
| ""
| 51
| 13
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 20
|
|
| ""
| 31
| 15
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 21
|
|
| ""
| 13
| 22
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 22
|
|
| ""
| 19
| 18
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 23
|
| One More Time
| ""
| 100
| 3
|}
Spokespersons
thumb|upright|[[Ragnhild Sælthun Fjørtoft, the Norwegian spokesperson]]
Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing, in English or French, the votes for its respective country. Spokespersons at the 1996 contest are listed below.
- Ragnhild Sælthun Fjørtoft
- Solveig Herlin
- Svanhildur Konráðsdóttir
- Segmedina Srna
- Ulla Rundqvist
Detailed voting results<span class="anchor" id="Scoreboard"></span>
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Jury voting was used to determine the points awarded by all countries. The announcement of the results from each country was conducted in the order in which they performed, with the spokespersons announcing their country's points in English or French in ascending order.
|-
! colspan="2" |
! scope="col" style="vertical-align:bottom"
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! scope="col"
! scope="col"
! scope="col"
! scope="col"
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! scope="col"
! scope="col"
! scope="col"
! scope="col"
! scope="col"
|-
! rowspan="23"
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Turkey
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 57 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || 6 || 8 || || || 10 || 1 || || 6 || || || || 4 || || 7 || 5 || || 5 || || || 5 || ||
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | United Kingdom
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 77 || 3 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || || 12 || 1 || 6 || 7 || 3 || 4 || || 2 || || 8 || || || 12 || 3 || || 4 || || || 6 || 6
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Spain
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 17 || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || || 2 || 5 || 4 || || || 6 || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Portugal
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 92 || 5 || 2 || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || 12 || || 10 || 1 || 10 || 5 || || 12 || 5 || || 6 || 6 || || 3 || 10 || || 1 || || 4
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Cyprus
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 72 || || 12 || 7 || 3 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || 2 || 8 || 2 || 5 || 12 || || || 2 || || || || 1 || 6 || || || || 10 || 2
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Malta
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 68 || 10 || || 10 || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || 12 || || || 8 || || 1 || || 4 || || || || || || 6 || || 12 || 5
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Croatia
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 98 || 8 || 4 || 5 || 10 || 8 || 7 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || || 1 || 1 || 6 || 7 || || 3 || 5 || 4 || 6 || || 5 || 2 || 10 || 5 || 1
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Austria
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 68 || 4 || || || 5 || || 12 || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || || 2 || 7 || || 12 || 1 || || || 8 || || || 8 || 6 || 3 ||
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Switzerland
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 22 || || 3 || || || || || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || || || || || 2 || 4 || 2 || 4 || 4 || 3 || || || ||
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Greece
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 36 || || 7 || || || 10 || 1 || || || 2 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || || 3 || || || 1 || || || || || 1 || || 8 || 3
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Estonia
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 94 || || 10 || 4 || || 7 || || || 5 || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || 8 || 1 || 8 || 3 || || 2 || 12 || 12 || 10 || || || 12
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Norway
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 114 || 2 || 8 || || 2 || 3 || || 5 || 8 || 7 || || 5 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || 7 || 10 || 10 || 8 || 7 || 7 || 8 || 4 || 3 || || 10
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | France
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 18 || || 1 || || 1 || || || || || || || 3 || 4 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || || || 7 || || 2 || || || || ||
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Slovenia
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 16 || || || 1 || || || || 6 || || || || || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || || || || || 1 || || 8 || ||
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Netherlands
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 78 || 1 || || 6 || 7 || 5 || || || 12 || 3 || || 4 || || 10 || 5 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || 1 || 5 || || 2 || 7 || 2 || || 8
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Belgium
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 22 || || 5 || 12 || || || || 2 || || || || 1 || || || || 2 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || || || || || || ||
|- style="background:gold;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; font-weight:bold; background:gold;" | Ireland
| style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold;" | 162 || 12 || || || 8 || 6 || 4 || || 7 || 12 || 10 || 12 || 10 || 6 || 12 || 12 || 3 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || 10 || || 12 || 12 || 7 || 7
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Finland
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 9 || || || || || || || || || || || || 2 || || || || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || 7 || || || ||
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Iceland
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 51 || || || 3 || 6 || || || || 6 || || 3 || 8 || 5 || || 6 || || || 10 || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || 3 || || 1 ||
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Poland
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 31 || 7 || || || || 4 || || || 4 || || 7 || || || || || || || || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || 7 || 2 ||
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Bosnia and Herzegovina
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 13 || 6 || || || || || 3 || 3 || || || || || || || || || || || 1 || || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | || ||
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Slovakia
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 19 || || || 2 || || || 8 || || || || 4 || || || || || || || || || || 5 || || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" | ||
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;" | Sweden
| style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;" | 100 || || || || 4 || || || || 10 || 8 || || 10 || 6 || 3 || 7 || 8 || 10 || 12 || 8 || 6 || || 4 || 4 || style="text-align:left; background:#aaa;" |
|}
12 points
The below table summarises how the maximum 12 points were awarded from one country to another in the final. The winning country is shown in bold. Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sticky-header"
|-
|+ Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
|-
! scope="col" | Country
! scope="col" | Broadcaster
! scope="col" | Channel(s)
! scope="col" | Commentator(s)
! scope="col" |
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | ORF
| ORF 1
| Ernst Grissemann
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
| FM4
| Stermann & Grissemann
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="3" |
| rowspan="2" | BRTN
| TV1
| Michel Follet and Johan Verstreken
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
| Radio 2
| and Bart Pieters
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
| RTBF
| RTBF1
| Jean-Pierre Hautier and Sandra Kim
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="row" |
| HRT
| HRT1
| Aleksandar Kostadinov
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="row" |
| CyBC
| RIK 1
| Evi Papamichail
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="row" |
| colspan="2" | ETV
|
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | YLE
| TV1
| Erkki Pohjanheimo, Sanna Kojo and Minna Pentti
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
|
| Iris Mattila and Pasi Hiihtola
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="row" |
| RÚV
| ,
| Jakob Frímann Magnússon
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | RTÉ
| RTÉ One
| Pat Kenny
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
| RTÉ Radio 1
| Larry Gogan
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="row" |
| PBS
| TVM
| Charles Saliba
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" |
| NOS
| TV2
| Willem van Beusekom
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
|NCRV
| Radio 2
| Hijlco Span
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | NRK
|
| Jostein Pedersen
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
| NRK P1
| and Anita Skorgan
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" |
| TVP
| TVP1
| Dorota Osman
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
| PR
|
| Artur Orzech and Dariusz Michalski
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="row" |
| RTP
| RTP1
|
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="row" |
| STV
| STV2
|
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | RTVSLO
| SLO 1
| Miša Molk
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
| Val 202
|
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="row" |
| TVE
|
| José Luis Uribarri
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" |
| SVT
| SVT2
| Björn Kjellman
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
| SR
| SR P3
| Claes-Johan Larsson and Lisa Syrén
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="3" |
| rowspan="2" | SRG SSR
|
| Sandra Studer
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
| TSR
| Pierre Grandjean
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
| colspan="2" |
|
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="row" |
| TRT
| TRT 1
|
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="rowgroup" rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | BBC
| BBC1