Madrid, Saturday, 29 March 1969
Eurovision 1969, vote by vote
16 songs, 16 countries voting. Four songs finished level at the top on 18 points: Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and France.
The result
In finishing order, with the countries that gave each song their highest mark.
- 1 18 pts
- 1 18 pts
- 1 18 pts
- 1 18 pts
France Frida Boccara “Un jour, un enfant”
Sang no. 14
Top marks from Ireland, United Kingdom and Netherlands
- 5 13 pts
Switzerland Paola “Bonjour, Bonjour”
Sang no. 11
- 6 11 pts
- 7 10 pts
- 7 10 pts
- 9 8 pts
- 9 8 pts
- 11 7 pts
- 12 6 pts
Finland Jarkko and Laura “Kuin silloin ennen”
Sang no. 16
- 13 5 pts
- 13 5 pts
Italy Iva Zanicchi “Due grosse lacrime bianche”
Sang no. 6
- 15 4 pts
- 16 1 pts
Norway Kirsti Sparboe “Oj, oj, oj, så glad jeg skal bli”
Sang no. 12
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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Yugoslavia
read out by Višnja Trputec
- 3 Germany
- 2 Switzerland
- 2 United Kingdom
- 1 Italy
- 1 Luxembourg
- 1 Spain
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Luxembourg
- 4 United Kingdom
- 2 Netherlands
- 2 Spain
- 1 Finland
- 1 France
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Spain
- 2 Belgium
- 2 Germany
- 2 Monaco
- 2 Portugal
- 1 Finland
- 1 Yugoslavia
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Monaco
- 3 Luxembourg
- 3 Spain
- 2 France
- 1 Italy
- 1 Netherlands
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Ireland
read out by Brendan O'Reilly
- 4 France
- 3 Switzerland
- 1 Finland
- 1 Italy
- 1 Spain
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Italy
- 4 Monaco
- 3 Netherlands
- 3 United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
read out by Colin Ward-Lewis
- 4 France
- 3 Belgium
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Ireland
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Netherlands
- 2 France
- 2 Monaco
- 1 Belgium
- 1 Finland
- 1 Ireland
- 1 Luxembourg
- 1 Sweden
- 1 United Kingdom
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Sweden
read out by Edvard Matz
- 5 United Kingdom
- 2 Monaco
- 1 France
- 1 Ireland
- 1 Norway
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Belgium
read out by Eugène Senelle
- 3 Spain
- 1 Germany
- 1 Luxembourg
- 1 Monaco
- 1 Netherlands
- 1 Portugal
- 1 Switzerland
- 1 Yugoslavia
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Switzerland
- 4 Netherlands
- 3 Ireland
- 2 Belgium
- 1 France
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Norway
read out by Janka Polanyi
- 3 Sweden
- 2 Belgium
- 1 Finland
- 1 Germany
- 1 Netherlands
- 1 Spain
- 1 Switzerland
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Germany
- 3 Spain
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Finland
- 1 France
- 1 Ireland
- 1 Luxembourg
- 1 United Kingdom
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France
- 6 Netherlands
- 2 Spain
- 1 Germany
- 1 Portugal
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Portugal
- 3 Yugoslavia
- 2 France
- 2 Spain
- 1 Italy
- 1 Sweden
- 1 United Kingdom
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Finland
read out by Poppe Berg
- 3 Ireland
- 3 Sweden
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Italy
- 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 16 columns wide, so it is shown on wider screens. Every number in it is in the lists above.
| Song | Total | Yugoslavia | Luxembourg | Spain | Monaco | Ireland | Italy | United Kingdom | Netherlands | Sweden | Belgium | Switzerland | Norway | Germany | France | Portugal | Finland |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yugoslavia | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Luxembourg | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Spain | 18 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Monaco | 11 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Ireland | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Italy | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 18 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Netherlands | 18 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||
| Sweden | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Belgium | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Switzerland | 13 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Norway | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Germany | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| France | 18 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Portugal | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Finland | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
On the night
What opened the show, and what filled the interval while the votes came in.
- opened by
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- The Teatro Real organ and the orchestra the Eurovision theme on the organ, then the previous year’s winner, “La, la, la”, from the orchestra
- in the interval
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- “La España diferente” a surrealist documentary film by Javier Aguirre, with music by Luis de Pablo
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.