Luxembourg City, Saturday, 5 March 1966
Eurovision 1966, vote by vote
18 songs, 18 countries voting. Austria won with “Merci, Chérie” on 31 points, 15 ahead of Sweden.
The result
In finishing order, with the countries that gave each song their highest mark.
- 1 31 pts
Austria Udo Jürgens “Merci, Chérie”
Sang no. 9
Top marks from Belgium, Luxembourg, Yugoslavia and Monaco
- 2 16 pts
Sweden Lill Lindfors and Svante Thuresson “Nygammal vals”
Sang no. 10
Top marks from Denmark, Norway and Finland
- 3 15 pts
- 4 14 pts
- 4 14 pts
- 6 12 pts
- 7 9 pts
- 7 9 pts
- 9 8 pts
- 10 7 pts
- 10 7 pts
- 10 7 pts
Finland Ann-Christine “Playboy”
Sang no. 7
- 13 6 pts
- 14 4 pts
- 15 2 pts
Netherlands Milly Scott “Fernando en Philippo”
Sang no. 16
- 16 1 pts
France Dominique Walter “Chez nous”
Sang no. 15
- 17 0 pts
- 17 0 pts
Italy Domenico Modugno “Dio, come ti amo”
Sang no. 14
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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Germany
- 5 Belgium
- 3 Yugoslavia
- 1 Norway
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Denmark
- 5 Sweden
- 3 Finland
- 1 Portugal
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Belgium
- 5 Austria
- 3 Ireland
- 1 Germany
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Luxembourg
read out by Camillo Felgen
- 5 Austria
- 3 United Kingdom
- 1 Switzerland
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Yugoslavia
- 5 Austria
- 3 Ireland
- 1 Spain
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Norway
read out by Erik Diesen
- 5 Sweden
- 3 Finland
- 1 Denmark
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Finland
read out by Poppe Berg
- 5 Sweden
- 3 Denmark
- 1 Yugoslavia
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Portugal
- 5 Spain
- 3 Belgium
- 1 Austria
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Austria
- 5 Switzerland
- 3 Norway
- 1 Luxembourg
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Sweden
read out by Edvard Matz
- 5 Luxembourg
- 3 Norway
- 1 Belgium
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Spain
- 5 Portugal
- 3 Norway
- 1 Austria
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Switzerland
- 5 Germany
- 3 Austria
- 1 Sweden
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Monaco
- 5 Austria
- 3 Switzerland
- 1 France
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Italy
- 5 Norway
- 3 Austria
- 1 Germany
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France
- 5 Ireland
- 3 Austria
- 1 Luxembourg
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Netherlands
read out by Herman Brouwer
- 5 Belgium
- 3 Ireland
- 1 Finland
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Ireland
read out by Frank Hall
- 5 United Kingdom
- 3 Switzerland
- 1 Netherlands
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United Kingdom
read out by Michael Aspel
- 5 Yugoslavia
- 3 Spain
- 1 Netherlands
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 18 columns wide, so it is shown on wider screens. Every number in it is in the lists above.
| Song | Total | Germany | Denmark | Belgium | Luxembourg | Yugoslavia | Norway | Finland | Portugal | Austria | Sweden | Spain | Switzerland | Monaco | Italy | France | Netherlands | Ireland | United Kingdom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Denmark | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Belgium | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Luxembourg | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Norway | 15 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Finland | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Portugal | 6 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Austria | 31 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Sweden | 16 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Spain | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 12 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Monaco | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Italy | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| France | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Ireland | 14 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 8 | 3 | 5 |
On the night
What opened the show, and what filled the interval while the votes came in.
- in the interval
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- Les Haricots Rouges a French Dixieland jazz group
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.