The Hague, Saturday, 19 April 1980
Eurovision 1980, vote by vote
19 songs, 19 countries voting. Ireland won with “What's Another Year” on 143 points, 15 ahead of Germany.
The result
In finishing order, with the countries that gave each song their highest mark.
- 1 143 pts
Ireland Johnny Logan “What's Another Year”
Sang no. 17
Top marks from Greece, Denmark, Switzerland, Norway, Germany, United Kingdom and Belgium
- 2 128 pts
- 3 106 pts
- 4 104 pts
- 5 93 pts
Netherlands Maggie MacNeal “Amsterdam”
Sang no. 15
Top marks from Austria, Turkey, Luxembourg and France
- 6 87 pts
- 7 71 pts
- 8 64 pts
Austria Blue Danube “Du bist Musik”
Sang no. 1
- 9 56 pts
Luxembourg Sophie and Magaly “Papa Pingouin”
Sang no. 4
- 10 47 pts
Sweden Tomas Ledin “Just nu”
Sang no. 8
- 11 45 pts
- 12 38 pts
Spain Trigo Limpio “Quédate esta noche”
Sang no. 18
- 13 30 pts
Greece Anna Vissi and the Epikouri “Autostop (Ωτοστόπ)”
Sang no. 3
- 14 25 pts
Denmark Bamses Venner “Tænker altid på dig”
Sang no. 7
- 15 23 pts
- 16 15 pts
Norway Sverre Kjelsberg and Mattis Hætta “Sámiid ædnan”
Sang no. 11
- 17 14 pts
- 18 7 pts
Morocco Samira Bensaïd “Bitakat Hob (بطاقة حب)”
Sang no. 5
- 19 6 pts
Finland Vesa-Matti Loiri “Huilumies”
Sang no. 10
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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Austria
- 12 Netherlands
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Germany
- 7 United Kingdom
- 6 Switzerland
- 5 Greece
- 4 Spain
- 3 Turkey
- 2 Italy
- 1 Luxembourg
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Turkey
- 12 Netherlands
- 10 Germany
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Spain
- 6 Italy
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Portugal
- 3 France
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Luxembourg
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Greece
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Sweden
- 8 Spain
- 7 France
- 6 Netherlands
- 5 Portugal
- 4 Denmark
- 3 Belgium
- 2 Italy
- 1 Austria
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Luxembourg
read out by Jacques Harvey
- 12 Netherlands
- 10 Sweden
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Ireland
- 6 Spain
- 5 Switzerland
- 4 Portugal
- 3 Germany
- 2 France
- 1 Greece
-
Morocco
- 12 Turkey
- 10 Germany
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Switzerland
- 6 Sweden
- 5 Spain
- 4 Norway
- 3 Austria
- 2 Denmark
- 1 France
-
Italy
- 12 Germany
- 10 Portugal
- 8 Turkey
- 7 Morocco
- 6 Spain
- 5 Sweden
- 4 Austria
- 3 Switzerland
- 2 Greece
- 1 Ireland
-
Denmark
read out by Bent Evold
- 12 Ireland
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Switzerland
- 7 Germany
- 6 Portugal
- 5 Austria
- 4 Luxembourg
- 3 Italy
- 2 Greece
- 1 France
-
Sweden
read out by Arne Weise
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Italy
- 8 Portugal
- 7 Ireland
- 6 Luxembourg
- 5 Germany
- 4 France
- 3 Netherlands
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Austria
-
Switzerland
- 12 Ireland
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Italy
- 7 Germany
- 6 Denmark
- 5 Sweden
- 4 Austria
- 3 Netherlands
- 2 Portugal
- 1 France
-
Finland
read out by Kaarina Pönniö
- 12 Switzerland
- 10 Netherlands
- 8 Ireland
- 7 Denmark
- 6 Italy
- 5 Austria
- 4 United Kingdom
- 3 Luxembourg
- 2 Germany
- 1 Portugal
-
Norway
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Switzerland
- 8 Portugal
- 7 Luxembourg
- 6 Austria
- 5 Finland
- 4 Greece
- 3 France
- 2 Italy
- 1 Denmark
-
Germany
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Switzerland
- 8 Netherlands
- 7 Italy
- 6 Norway
- 5 Denmark
- 4 Austria
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Sweden
- 1 Portugal
-
United Kingdom
read out by Ray Moore
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Germany
- 8 Luxembourg
- 7 Switzerland
- 6 Austria
- 5 France
- 4 Italy
- 3 Greece
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Belgium
-
Portugal
- 12 Italy
- 10 Belgium
- 8 Germany
- 7 United Kingdom
- 6 Switzerland
- 5 Ireland
- 4 Netherlands
- 3 Austria
- 2 Spain
- 1 Greece
-
Netherlands
- 12 Germany
- 10 Switzerland
- 8 Greece
- 7 United Kingdom
- 6 Ireland
- 5 Portugal
- 4 France
- 3 Austria
- 2 Norway
- 1 Italy
-
France
- 12 Netherlands
- 10 Germany
- 8 Ireland
- 7 Luxembourg
- 6 Portugal
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Austria
- 3 Norway
- 2 Italy
- 1 Finland
-
Ireland
read out by David Hefferman
- 12 Switzerland
- 10 Austria
- 8 Luxembourg
- 7 Portugal
- 6 United Kingdom
- 5 Germany
- 4 Greece
- 3 France
- 2 Italy
- 1 Netherlands
-
Spain
- 12 Germany
- 10 Italy
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Ireland
- 6 France
- 5 Netherlands
- 4 Austria
- 3 Luxembourg
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Sweden
-
Belgium
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Italy
- 8 Luxembourg
- 7 Germany
- 6 United Kingdom
- 5 France
- 4 Portugal
- 3 Netherlands
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Austria
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 19 columns wide, so it is shown on wider screens. Every number in it is in the lists above.
| Song | Total | Austria | Turkey | Greece | Luxembourg | Morocco | Italy | Denmark | Sweden | Switzerland | Finland | Norway | Germany | United Kingdom | Portugal | Netherlands | France | Ireland | Spain | Belgium |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 64 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Turkey | 23 | 3 | 12 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
| Greece | 30 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Luxembourg | 56 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 8 | ||||||||
| Morocco | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Italy | 87 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | |||
| Denmark | 25 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Sweden | 47 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Switzerland | 104 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Finland | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Norway | 15 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Germany | 128 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 7 | |||
| United Kingdom | 106 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | ||||
| Portugal | 71 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 | |||||
| Netherlands | 93 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 3 | |||||
| France | 45 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | ||||||
| Ireland | 143 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 12 | |||
| Spain | 38 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Belgium | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
On the night
What opened the show, and what filled the interval while the votes came in.
- in the interval
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- The Dutch Rhythm Steel & Show Band “San Fernando”, with the Lee Jackson Dancers
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.