Dublin, Saturday, 4 April 1981
Eurovision 1981, vote by vote
20 songs, 20 countries voting. The United Kingdom won with “Making Your Mind Up” on 136 points, 4 ahead of Germany.
The result
In finishing order, with the countries that gave each song their highest mark.
- 1 136 pts
- 2 132 pts
- 3 125 pts
France Jean Gabilou “Humanahum”
Sang no. 9
Top marks from Austria, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland
- 4 121 pts
Switzerland Peter, Sue and Marc “Io senza te”
Sang no. 19
Top marks from Yugoslavia, Finland, Ireland, Norway and United Kingdom
- 5 105 pts
- 6 69 pts
- 7 56 pts
- 8 55 pts
Greece Yiannis Dimitras “Feggari kalokerino (Φεγγάρι καλοκαιρινό)”
Sang no. 17
- 9 51 pts
Netherlands Linda Williams “Het is een wonder”
Sang no. 11
- 10 50 pts
- 11 41 pts
Luxembourg Jean-Claude Pascal “C'est peut-être pas l'Amérique”
Sang no. 4
- 11 41 pts
- 13 40 pts
Belgium Emly Starr “Samson”
Sang no. 16
- 14 38 pts
- 15 35 pts
Yugoslavia Seid Memić Vajta “Lejla (Лејла)”
Sang no. 7
- 16 27 pts
Finland Riki Sorsa “Reggae O.K.”
Sang no. 8
- 17 20 pts
Austria Marty Brem “Wenn du da bist”
Sang no. 1
- 18 9 pts
Turkey Modern Folk Trio and Ayşegül “Dönme Dolap”
Sang no. 2
- 18 9 pts
Portugal Carlos Paião “Playback”
Sang no. 15
- 20 0 pts
Norway Finn Kalvik “Aldri i livet”
Sang no. 13
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 France
- 10 Luxembourg
- 8 Israel
- 7 Ireland
- 6 Greece
- 5 Germany
- 4 United Kingdom
- 3 Netherlands
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Belgium
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Turkey
- 12 Germany
- 10 Spain
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Belgium
- 6 Austria
- 5 Netherlands
- 4 Yugoslavia
- 3 Ireland
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Denmark
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Germany
- 12 France
- 10 Sweden
- 8 Portugal
- 7 Switzerland
- 6 Ireland
- 5 Luxembourg
- 4 United Kingdom
- 3 Netherlands
- 2 Greece
- 1 Denmark
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Luxembourg
- 12 France
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Switzerland
- 7 Denmark
- 6 Greece
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Israel
- 3 Germany
- 2 Sweden
- 1 Turkey
-
Israel
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Germany
- 7 France
- 6 Spain
- 5 Cyprus
- 4 Netherlands
- 3 Luxembourg
- 2 Finland
- 1 Belgium
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Denmark
- 12 Ireland
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Germany
- 7 Netherlands
- 6 Belgium
- 5 Sweden
- 4 Switzerland
- 3 Cyprus
- 2 France
- 1 Austria
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Yugoslavia
read out by Helga Vlahović
- 12 Switzerland
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Belgium
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Cyprus
- 5 Ireland
- 4 France
- 3 Turkey
- 2 Germany
- 1 Greece
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Finland
read out by Annemi Genetz
- 12 Switzerland
- 10 France
- 8 Yugoslavia
- 7 Germany
- 6 Israel
- 5 Turkey
- 4 Luxembourg
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Belgium
- 1 Sweden
-
France
- 12 Sweden
- 10 Switzerland
- 8 Germany
- 7 United Kingdom
- 6 Ireland
- 5 Austria
- 4 Denmark
- 3 Luxembourg
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Finland
-
Spain
read out by Isabel Tenaille
- 12 Germany
- 10 Greece
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Netherlands
- 6 Austria
- 5 Ireland
- 4 Switzerland
- 3 Denmark
- 2 Finland
- 1 Luxembourg
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Netherlands
read out by Flip van der Schalie
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Cyprus
- 7 Israel
- 6 France
- 5 Finland
- 4 Spain
- 3 Germany
- 2 Denmark
- 1 Switzerland
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Ireland
- 12 Switzerland
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Cyprus
- 7 Israel
- 6 Germany
- 5 Finland
- 4 France
- 3 Spain
- 2 Yugoslavia
- 1 Greece
-
Norway
- 12 Switzerland
- 10 Spain
- 8 Israel
- 7 Cyprus
- 6 Sweden
- 5 France
- 4 Germany
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Greece
- 1 Yugoslavia
-
United Kingdom
read out by Colin Berry
- 12 Switzerland
- 10 Cyprus
- 8 Greece
- 7 Germany
- 6 Netherlands
- 5 Denmark
- 4 Israel
- 3 Belgium
- 2 Sweden
- 1 France
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Portugal
- 12 Germany
- 10 France
- 8 Switzerland
- 7 Netherlands
- 6 United Kingdom
- 5 Israel
- 4 Luxembourg
- 3 Spain
- 2 Denmark
- 1 Finland
-
Belgium
- 12 Denmark
- 10 Germany
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Cyprus
- 6 Greece
- 5 Yugoslavia
- 4 Sweden
- 3 France
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Ireland
-
Greece
- 12 Cyprus
- 10 Ireland
- 8 France
- 7 Belgium
- 6 United Kingdom
- 5 Germany
- 4 Switzerland
- 3 Netherlands
- 2 Yugoslavia
- 1 Portugal
-
Cyprus
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Switzerland
- 8 Germany
- 7 France
- 6 Greece
- 5 Belgium
- 4 United Kingdom
- 3 Yugoslavia
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Sweden
-
Switzerland
- 12 France
- 10 Yugoslavia
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Greece
- 6 Luxembourg
- 5 Finland
- 4 Israel
- 3 Cyprus
- 2 Spain
- 1 Ireland
-
Sweden
read out by Bengteric Nordell
- 12 Germany
- 10 France
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Ireland
- 6 Finland
- 5 Luxembourg
- 4 Denmark
- 3 Israel
- 2 Austria
- 1 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 20 columns wide, so it is shown on wider screens. Every number in it is in the lists above.
| Song | Total | Austria | Turkey | Germany | Luxembourg | Israel | Denmark | Yugoslavia | Finland | France | Spain | Netherlands | Ireland | Norway | United Kingdom | Portugal | Belgium | Greece | Cyprus | Switzerland | Sweden |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 20 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Turkey | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Germany | 132 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 12 | ||
| Luxembourg | 41 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Israel | 56 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Denmark | 41 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 35 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Finland | 27 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| France | 125 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 10 | |||
| Spain | 38 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 51 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| Ireland | 105 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 7 | |||||
| Norway | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 136 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 8 | |
| Portugal | 9 | 8 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Belgium | 40 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Greece | 55 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | |||||||||
| Cyprus | 69 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Switzerland | 121 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 1 | |||
| Sweden | 50 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
On the night
What opened the show, and what filled the interval while the votes came in.
- in the interval
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- Planxty “Timedance”, Irish music through the ages, danced by the Dublin City Ballet
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.