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Brighton, Saturday, 6 April 1974

Eurovision 1974, vote by vote

17 songs, 17 countries voting. Sweden won with “Waterloo” on 24 points, 6 ahead of Italy.

The result

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

  1. 1

    Sweden ABBA “Waterloo”

    Sang no. 8

    Top marks from Finland, Israel, Norway, Germany and Switzerland

    24 pts
  2. 2

    Italy Gigliola Cinquetti “Sì”

    Sang no. 17

    Top marks from United Kingdom, Spain and Monaco

    18 pts
  3. 3

    Netherlands Mouth and MacNeal “I See a Star”

    Sang no. 12

    Top marks from Sweden

    15 pts
  4. 4

    United Kingdom Olivia Newton-John “Long Live Love”

    Sang no. 2

    Top marks from Yugoslavia, Germany and Italy

    14 pts
  5. 4

    Luxembourg Ireen Sheer “Bye Bye I Love You”

    Sang no. 9

    Top marks from Israel and Ireland

    14 pts
  6. 4

    Monaco Romuald “Celui qui reste et celui qui s'en va”

    Sang no. 10

    Top marks from Germany, Spain and Belgium

    14 pts
  7. 7

    Israel Poogy “Natati La Khaiai (נתתי לה חיי)”

    Sang no. 6

    Top marks from Portugal and Italy

    11 pts
  8. 7

    Ireland Tina Reynolds “Cross Your Heart”

    Sang no. 13

    Top marks from Norway and Spain

    11 pts
  9. 9

    Spain Peret “Canta y sé feliz”

    Sang no. 3

    Top marks from Norway and Portugal

    10 pts
  10. 9

    Belgium Jacques Hustin “Fleur de liberté”

    Sang no. 11

    Top marks from Luxembourg, Norway and Greece

    10 pts
  11. 11

    Greece Marinella “Krassi, thalassa ke t' agori mu (Κρασί, θάλασσα και τ' αγόρι μου)”

    Sang no. 5

    Top marks from Netherlands

    7 pts
  12. 12

    Yugoslavia Korni Grupa “Generacija '42 (Генерација '42)”

    Sang no. 7

    6 pts
  13. 13

    Finland Carita “Keep Me Warm”

    Sang no. 1

    Top marks from Israel

    4 pts
  14. 14

    Norway Anne-Karine and the Bendik Singers “The First Day of Love”

    Sang no. 4

    3 pts
  15. 14

    Germany Cindy and Bert “Die Sommermelodie”

    Sang no. 14

    3 pts
  16. 14

    Switzerland Piera Martell “Mein Ruf nach dir”

    Sang no. 15

    3 pts
  17. 14

    Portugal Paulo de Carvalho “E depois do adeus”

    Sang no. 16

    3 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. Finland

    read out by Aarre Elo

    • 5 Sweden
    • 2 Italy
    • 1 Netherlands
    • 1 United Kingdom
    • 1 Yugoslavia

  2. Luxembourg

    • 3 Belgium
    • 2 Ireland
    • 2 Monaco
    • 1 Italy
    • 1 Spain
    • 1 Sweden

  3. Israel

    • 2 Finland
    • 2 Luxembourg
    • 2 Sweden
    • 1 Ireland
    • 1 Italy
    • 1 Monaco
    • 1 Netherlands

  4. Norway

    • 2 Belgium
    • 2 Ireland
    • 2 Spain
    • 2 Sweden
    • 1 Monaco
    • 1 Netherlands

  5. United Kingdom

    read out by Colin Ward-Lewis

    • 5 Italy
    • 2 Israel
    • 1 Finland
    • 1 Ireland
    • 1 Switzerland

  6. Yugoslavia

    read out by Helga Vlahović

    • 4 United Kingdom
    • 3 Netherlands
    • 2 Luxembourg
    • 1 Sweden

  7. Greece

    • 5 Belgium
    • 2 Netherlands
    • 1 Germany
    • 1 Luxembourg
    • 1 United Kingdom

  8. Ireland

    read out by Brendan Balfe

    • 3 Luxembourg
    • 1 Finland
    • 1 Israel
    • 1 Italy
    • 1 Monaco
    • 1 Netherlands
    • 1 Sweden
    • 1 United Kingdom

  9. Germany

    • 2 Monaco
    • 2 Sweden
    • 2 United Kingdom
    • 1 Luxembourg
    • 1 Netherlands
    • 1 Spain
    • 1 Switzerland

  10. Portugal

    • 2 Israel
    • 2 Spain
    • 1 Greece
    • 1 Italy
    • 1 Monaco
    • 1 Netherlands
    • 1 Sweden
    • 1 Yugoslavia

  11. Netherlands

    • 4 Greece
    • 3 Sweden
    • 2 Israel
    • 1 Spain

  12. Sweden

    read out by Sven Lindahl

    • 3 Netherlands
    • 2 Greece
    • 2 Ireland
    • 1 Israel
    • 1 Monaco
    • 1 Norway

  13. Spain

    • 2 Ireland
    • 2 Italy
    • 2 Monaco
    • 1 Luxembourg
    • 1 Portugal
    • 1 Sweden
    • 1 Yugoslavia

  14. Monaco

    read out by Sophie Hecquet

    • 4 Italy
    • 3 Spain
    • 1 Ireland
    • 1 Luxembourg
    • 1 Norway

  15. Switzerland

    • 5 Sweden
    • 2 Portugal
    • 1 Germany
    • 1 Monaco
    • 1 United Kingdom

  16. Belgium

    • 2 Monaco
    • 1 Germany
    • 1 Italy
    • 1 Luxembourg
    • 1 Netherlands
    • 1 Norway
    • 1 Switzerland
    • 1 United Kingdom
    • 1 Yugoslavia

  17. Italy

    • 3 Israel
    • 3 United Kingdom
    • 2 Luxembourg
    • 2 Yugoslavia

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 Finland Luxembourg Israel Norway United Kingdom Yugoslavia Greece Ireland Germany Portugal Netherlands Sweden Spain Monaco Switzerland Belgium Italy
Finland 4 2 1 1
United Kingdom 14 1 4 1 1 2 1 1 3
Spain 10 1 2 1 2 1 3
Norway 3 1 1 1
Greece 7 1 4 2
Israel 11 2 1 2 2 1 3
Yugoslavia 6 1 1 1 1 2
Sweden 24 5 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 3 1 5
Luxembourg 14 2 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 2
Monaco 14 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2
Belgium 10 3 2 5
Netherlands 15 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 1 3 1
Ireland 11 2 1 2 1 2 2 1
Germany 3 1 1 1
Switzerland 3 1 1 1
Portugal 3 1 2
Italy 18 2 1 1 5 1 1 2 4 1

On the night

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

in the interval
  • The Wombles a film of the novelty pop band, in costume, around Brighton

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.