Cannes, Wednesday, 11 March 1959
Eurovision 1959, vote by vote
11 songs, 11 countries voting. The Netherlands won with “Een beetje” on 21 points, 5 ahead of the United Kingdom.
The result
In finishing order, with the countries that gave each song their highest mark.
- 1 21 pts
Netherlands Teddy Scholten “Een beetje”
Sang no. 5
Top marks from Belgium, Austria, Italy and France
- 2 16 pts
United Kingdom Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson “Sing Little Birdie”
Sang no. 10
Top marks from Switzerland, Netherlands and Monaco
- 3 15 pts
- 4 14 pts
- 5 12 pts
- 6 9 pts
- 6 9 pts
- 8 5 pts
Germany Alice and Ellen Kessler “Heut' woll'n wir tanzen geh'n”
Sang no. 6
- 9 4 pts
Sweden Brita Borg “Augustin”
Sang no. 7
- 9 4 pts
Austria Ferry Graf “Der K. und K. Kalypso aus Wien”
Sang no. 9
- 11 1 pts
Monaco Jacques Pills “Mon ami Pierrot”
Sang no. 4
Who gave what
Every country that voted, in the order the votes were announced, with its points from the highest down and the spokesperson who read them out, where our source names one.
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Belgium
- 3 Netherlands
- 2 France
- 2 United Kingdom
- 1 Germany
- 1 Italy
- 1 Switzerland
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United Kingdom
- 5 Switzerland
- 2 Belgium
- 2 Denmark
- 1 Netherlands
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Austria
- 3 Netherlands
- 2 Denmark
- 2 United Kingdom
- 1 France
- 1 Monaco
- 1 Switzerland
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Switzerland
- 3 Italy
- 3 United Kingdom
- 1 Austria
- 1 Denmark
- 1 France
- 1 Germany
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Sweden
read out by Roland Eiworth
- 4 Denmark
- 3 Switzerland
- 2 Austria
- 1 Italy
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Germany
- 4 France
- 3 Belgium
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Switzerland
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Netherlands
read out by Siebe van der Zee
- 5 United Kingdom
- 3 Sweden
- 1 Belgium
- 1 Denmark
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Monaco
- 2 France
- 2 United Kingdom
- 1 Austria
- 1 Belgium
- 1 Denmark
- 1 Italy
- 1 Netherlands
- 1 Switzerland
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Italy
- 7 Netherlands
- 1 Denmark
- 1 France
- 1 Germany
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Denmark
- 4 France
- 2 Belgium
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Sweden
- 1 United Kingdom
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France
- 4 Netherlands
- 3 Italy
- 2 Germany
- 1 United Kingdom
The full scoreboard
Songs down the side, voters across the top in the order they were called. A voter’s highest mark is highlighted.
The grid is 11 columns wide, so it is shown on wider screens. Every number in it is in the lists above.
| Song | Total | Belgium | United Kingdom | Austria | Switzerland | Sweden | Germany | Netherlands | Monaco | Italy | Denmark | France |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Denmark | 12 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Italy | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| Monaco | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Netherlands | 21 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | ||||
| Germany | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Sweden | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| Switzerland | 14 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Austria | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| United Kingdom | 16 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Belgium | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
On the night
What opened the show, and what filled the interval while the votes came in.
- opened by
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- The orchestra under Franck Pourcel the prelude to Charpentier’s Te Deum, the theme of Eurovision broadcasts
Results and votes as published by the European Broadcasting Union and recorded on the contest’s Wikipedia article. Every row here has been checked to add up to its total. Spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.