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London, Saturday, 6 April 1968

Eurovision 1968, vote by vote

17 songs, 17 countries voting. Spain won with “La La La” on 29 points, 1 ahead of the United Kingdom.

The result

In finishing order, with the countries that gave each song their highest mark.

  1. 1

    Spain Massiel “La La La”

    Sang no. 15

    Top marks from Portugal, Finland, France, Italy and Germany

    29 pts
  2. 2

    United Kingdom Cliff Richard “Congratulations”

    Sang no. 12

    Top marks from Switzerland, Monaco and France

    28 pts
  3. 3

    France Isabelle Aubret “La Source”

    Sang no. 10

    Top marks from Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg

    20 pts
  4. 4

    Ireland Pat McGeegan “Chance of a Lifetime”

    Sang no. 14

    Top marks from Austria, Sweden and Yugoslavia

    18 pts
  5. 5

    Sweden Claes-Göran Hederström “Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mej”

    Sang no. 8

    Top marks from Norway and Ireland

    15 pts
  6. 6

    Germany Wencke Myhre “Ein Hoch der Liebe”

    Sang no. 16

    Top marks from United Kingdom

    11 pts
  7. 7

    Belgium Claude Lombard “Quand tu reviendras”

    Sang no. 3

    Top marks from Italy

    8 pts
  8. 7

    Monaco Line and Willy “À chacun sa chanson”

    Sang no. 7

    Top marks from Finland

    8 pts
  9. 7

    Yugoslavia Lući Kapurso and Hamo Hajdarhodžić “Jedan dan (Један дан)”

    Sang no. 17

    8 pts
  10. 10

    Italy Sergio Endrigo “Marianne”

    Sang no. 11

    7 pts
  11. 11

    Portugal Carlos Mendes “Verão”

    Sang no. 1

    Top marks from Spain

    5 pts
  12. 11

    Luxembourg Chris Baldo and Sophie Garel “Nous vivrons d'amour”

    Sang no. 5

    5 pts
  13. 13

    Austria Karel Gott “Tausend Fenster”

    Sang no. 4

    2 pts
  14. 13

    Switzerland Gianni Mascolo “Guardando il sole”

    Sang no. 6

    2 pts
  15. 13

    Norway Odd Børre “Stress”

    Sang no. 13

    2 pts
  16. 16

    Netherlands Ronnie Tober “Morgen”

    Sang no. 2

    1 pts
  17. 16

    Finland Kristina Hautala “Kun kello käy”

    Sang no. 9

    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.

  1. Portugal

    • 4 Spain
    • 1 Belgium
    • 1 Ireland
    • 1 Italy
    • 1 Sweden
    • 1 United Kingdom
    • 1 Yugoslavia

  2. Netherlands

    • 3 France
    • 2 Monaco
    • 2 United Kingdom
    • 1 Ireland
    • 1 Luxembourg
    • 1 Sweden

  3. Belgium

    • 6 France
    • 2 United Kingdom
    • 1 Ireland
    • 1 Yugoslavia

  4. Austria

    • 4 Ireland
    • 2 France
    • 2 Spain
    • 1 Luxembourg
    • 1 Yugoslavia

  5. Luxembourg

    • 3 France
    • 1 Germany
    • 1 Ireland
    • 1 Monaco
    • 1 Norway
    • 1 Spain
    • 1 United Kingdom
    • 1 Yugoslavia

  6. Switzerland

    • 4 United Kingdom
    • 3 France
    • 2 Italy
    • 1 Germany

  7. Monaco

    • 5 United Kingdom
    • 4 Spain
    • 1 Luxembourg

  8. Sweden

    read out by Edvard Matz

    • 4 Ireland
    • 3 United Kingdom
    • 2 Germany
    • 1 France

  9. Finland

    read out by Poppe Berg

    • 3 Monaco
    • 3 Spain
    • 2 United Kingdom
    • 1 Belgium
    • 1 Sweden

  10. France

    • 4 Spain
    • 4 United Kingdom
    • 1 Belgium
    • 1 Luxembourg

  11. Italy

    • 3 Belgium
    • 3 Spain
    • 2 France
    • 1 Netherlands
    • 1 United Kingdom

  12. United Kingdom

    read out by Michael Aspel

    • 5 Germany
    • 2 Sweden
    • 1 Belgium
    • 1 Luxembourg
    • 1 Monaco

  13. Norway

    • 6 Sweden
    • 2 Portugal
    • 1 Finland
    • 1 Spain

  14. Ireland

    read out by Gay Byrne

    • 4 Sweden
    • 3 Yugoslavia
    • 1 Monaco
    • 1 Spain
    • 1 United Kingdom

  15. Spain

    read out by Ramón Rivera

    • 3 Portugal
    • 2 Germany
    • 2 Italy
    • 1 Belgium
    • 1 Norway
    • 1 Yugoslavia

  16. Germany

    • 6 Spain
    • 2 Austria
    • 2 United Kingdom

  17. Yugoslavia

    • 6 Ireland
    • 2 Italy
    • 2 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 17 columns wide, so it is shown on wider screens. Every number in it is in the lists above.

Song Total Portugal Netherlands Belgium Austria Luxembourg Switzerland Monaco Sweden Finland France Italy United Kingdom Norway Ireland Spain Germany Yugoslavia
Portugal 5 2 3
Netherlands 1 1
Belgium 8 1 1 1 3 1 1
Austria 2 2
Luxembourg 5 1 1 1 1 1
Switzerland 2 2
Monaco 8 2 1 3 1 1
Sweden 15 1 1 1 2 6 4
Finland 1 1
France 20 3 6 2 3 3 1 2
Italy 7 1 2 2 2
United Kingdom 28 1 2 2 1 4 5 3 2 4 1 1 2
Norway 2 1 1
Ireland 18 1 1 1 4 1 4 6
Spain 29 4 2 1 4 3 4 3 1 1 6
Germany 11 1 1 2 5 2
Yugoslavia 8 1 1 1 1 3 1

On the night

What opened the show, and what filled the interval while the votes came in.

in the interval
  • Impressions of London a film of the city in pictures and sound

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.