Cannes, Saturday, 18 March 1961
Eurovision 1961, vote by vote
16 songs, 16 countries voting. Luxembourg won with “Nous les amoureux” on 31 points, 7 ahead of the United Kingdom.
The result
In finishing order, with the countries that gave each song their highest mark.
- 1 31 pts
Luxembourg Jean-Claude Pascal “Nous les amoureux”
Sang no. 14
Top marks from Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia, Finland, Austria and Monaco
- 2 24 pts
United Kingdom The Allisons “Are You Sure?”
Sang no. 15
Top marks from Luxembourg, Switzerland, Netherlands and Spain
- 3 16 pts
Switzerland Franca di Rienzo “Nous aurons demain”
Sang no. 10
Top marks from United Kingdom and Sweden
- 4 13 pts
- 5 12 pts
- 5 12 pts
- 7 10 pts
- 8 9 pts
Yugoslavia Ljiljana Petrović “Neke davne zvezde (Неке давне звезде)”
Sang no. 5
Top marks from France
- 9 8 pts
- 10 6 pts
- 10 6 pts
- 10 6 pts
Netherlands Greetje Kauffeld “Wat een dag”
Sang no. 6
- 13 3 pts
Germany Lale Andersen “Einmal sehen wir uns wieder”
Sang no. 8
- 14 2 pts
- 15 1 pts
Austria Jimmy Makulis “Sehnsucht”
Sang no. 3
- 15 1 pts
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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Italy
- 3 Luxembourg
- 2 Finland
- 2 Netherlands
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
read out by Michael Aspel
- 2 Finland
- 2 France
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Austria
- 1 Monaco
- 1 Spain
- 1 Yugoslavia
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Luxembourg
- 8 United Kingdom
- 1 Belgium
- 1 France
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Denmark
- 4 Italy
- 1 Finland
- 1 Germany
- 1 Luxembourg
- 1 Norway
- 1 United Kingdom
- 1 Yugoslavia
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Norway
- 8 Denmark
- 2 Spain
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Belgium
- 5 Norway
- 4 Italy
- 1 United Kingdom
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Switzerland
- 7 United Kingdom
- 1 Luxembourg
- 1 Monaco
- 1 Yugoslavia
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France
- 2 Spain
- 2 Sweden
- 2 Yugoslavia
- 1 Finland
- 1 Italy
- 1 Luxembourg
- 1 Netherlands
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Germany
- 5 Luxembourg
- 4 France
- 1 Netherlands
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Sweden
read out by Roland Eiworth
- 4 Switzerland
- 2 Denmark
- 1 France
- 1 Germany
- 1 Luxembourg
- 1 Spain
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Netherlands
read out by Siebe van der Zee
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Denmark
- 1 Italy
- 1 Luxembourg
- 1 Spain
- 1 Yugoslavia
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Yugoslavia
- 5 Luxembourg
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Italy
- 1 Norway
- 1 Switzerland
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Finland
read out by Poppe Berg
- 3 Luxembourg
- 3 Monaco
- 2 Norway
- 1 Denmark
- 1 France
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Austria
- 4 Luxembourg
- 3 Yugoslavia
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Germany
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Monaco
- 4 Luxembourg
- 2 France
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Italy
- 1 Spain
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Spain
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 France
- 2 Luxembourg
- 1 Monaco
- 1 Norway
- 1 Switzerland
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 16 columns wide, so it is shown on wider screens. Every number in it is in the lists above.
| Song | Total | Italy | United Kingdom | Luxembourg | Denmark | Norway | Belgium | Switzerland | France | Germany | Sweden | Netherlands | Yugoslavia | Finland | Austria | Monaco | Spain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Monaco | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Austria | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Finland | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Netherlands | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Sweden | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Germany | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| France | 13 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Switzerland | 16 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Belgium | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Norway | 10 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Denmark | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Luxembourg | 31 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| United Kingdom | 24 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Italy | 12 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
On the night
What opened the show, and what filled the interval while the votes came in.
- in the interval
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- Tessa Beaumont and Max Bozzoni a dance piece, “Rencontres à Cannes”, to music by Raymond Lefèvre
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.