Munich, Saturday, 23 April 1983
Eurovision 1983, vote by vote
20 songs, 20 countries voting. Luxembourg won with “Si la vie est cadeau” on 142 points, 6 ahead of Israel.
The result
In finishing order, with the countries that gave each song their highest mark.
- 1 142 pts
Luxembourg Corinne Hermès “Si la vie est cadeau”
Sang no. 20
Top marks from France, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Israel and Portugal
- 2 136 pts
- 3 126 pts
- 4 125 pts
Yugoslavia Daniel “Džuli (Џули)”
Sang no. 12
Top marks from United Kingdom, Turkey, Finland, Denmark and Belgium
- 5 94 pts
- 6 79 pts
- 7 66 pts
- 8 56 pts
France Guy Bonnet “Vivre”
Sang no. 1
- 9 53 pts
Norway Jahn Teigen “Do Re Mi”
Sang no. 2
- 9 53 pts
- 11 41 pts
Italy Riccardo Fogli “Per Lucia”
Sang no. 5
- 11 41 pts
Finland Ami Aspelund “Fantasiaa”
Sang no. 9
- 13 33 pts
Portugal Armando Gama “Esta balada que te dou”
Sang no. 17
- 14 32 pts
- 15 28 pts
Switzerland Mariella Farré “Io così non ci sto”
Sang no. 8
- 16 26 pts
Cyprus Stavros and Constantina “I agapi akoma zi (Η αγάπη ακόμα ζει)”
Sang no. 13
- 17 16 pts
Denmark Gry Johansen “Kloden drejer”
Sang no. 15
- 18 13 pts
Belgium Pas de Deux “Rendez-vous”
Sang no. 19
- 19 0 pts
- 19 0 pts
Spain Remedios Amaya “Quién maneja mi barca”
Sang no. 7
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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France
- 12 Luxembourg
- 10 Germany
- 8 Israel
- 7 Italy
- 6 Sweden
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Portugal
- 3 Greece
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Finland
-
Norway
- 12 Sweden
- 10 Germany
- 8 Yugoslavia
- 7 Netherlands
- 6 Israel
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Cyprus
- 3 France
- 2 Finland
- 1 Switzerland
-
United Kingdom
read out by Colin Berry
- 12 Yugoslavia
- 10 Israel
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Germany
- 6 Finland
- 5 Norway
- 4 Belgium
- 3 Austria
- 2 Denmark
- 1 Netherlands
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Sweden
read out by Agneta Bolme Börjefors
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Luxembourg
- 8 Germany
- 7 Denmark
- 6 Netherlands
- 5 Israel
- 4 Austria
- 3 Norway
- 2 Italy
- 1 Portugal
-
Italy
- 12 Luxembourg
- 10 France
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Switzerland
- 6 Germany
- 5 Austria
- 4 Netherlands
- 3 Israel
- 2 United Kingdom
- 1 Yugoslavia
-
Turkey
- 12 Yugoslavia
- 10 Austria
- 8 Luxembourg
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Norway
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Italy
- 3 Finland
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Denmark
-
Spain
read out by Rosa Campano
- 12 Greece
- 10 Yugoslavia
- 8 Belgium
- 7 Luxembourg
- 6 Israel
- 5 Portugal
- 4 Denmark
- 3 Italy
- 2 Sweden
- 1 Switzerland
-
Switzerland
- 12 Netherlands
- 10 France
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Israel
- 6 Portugal
- 5 Sweden
- 4 Finland
- 3 Luxembourg
- 2 Germany
- 1 Cyprus
-
Finland
read out by Solveig Herlin
- 12 Yugoslavia
- 10 Sweden
- 8 Luxembourg
- 7 Israel
- 6 France
- 5 Greece
- 4 Germany
- 3 Netherlands
- 2 Portugal
- 1 Italy
-
Greece
- 12 Luxembourg
- 10 Sweden
- 8 Finland
- 7 France
- 6 Yugoslavia
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Austria
- 3 Israel
- 2 Italy
- 1 Germany
-
Netherlands
read out by Flip van der Schalie
- 12 Israel
- 10 Germany
- 8 Norway
- 7 Yugoslavia
- 6 Portugal
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Austria
- 3 Sweden
- 2 France
- 1 Luxembourg
-
Yugoslavia
- 12 Luxembourg
- 10 Israel
- 8 Italy
- 7 Switzerland
- 6 Cyprus
- 5 Netherlands
- 4 Austria
- 3 France
- 2 Portugal
- 1 Sweden
-
Cyprus
- 12 Greece
- 10 Luxembourg
- 8 Yugoslavia
- 7 Sweden
- 6 United Kingdom
- 5 Netherlands
- 4 France
- 3 Austria
- 2 Denmark
- 1 Italy
-
Germany
- 12 Sweden
- 10 Israel
- 8 Luxembourg
- 7 Finland
- 6 Yugoslavia
- 5 Cyprus
- 4 France
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Norway
-
Denmark
read out by Bent Evold
- 12 Yugoslavia
- 10 Sweden
- 8 Norway
- 7 Israel
- 6 Austria
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Netherlands
- 3 Germany
- 2 Luxembourg
- 1 Cyprus
-
Israel
- 12 Luxembourg
- 10 Yugoslavia
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Finland
- 6 Italy
- 5 Cyprus
- 4 Norway
- 3 Netherlands
- 2 Austria
- 1 France
-
Portugal
- 12 Luxembourg
- 10 Israel
- 8 Germany
- 7 Italy
- 6 Norway
- 5 Austria
- 4 Sweden
- 3 France
- 2 United Kingdom
- 1 Belgium
-
Austria
- 12 Israel
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Germany
- 6 Switzerland
- 5 Luxembourg
- 4 Netherlands
- 3 Norway
- 2 Finland
- 1 Yugoslavia
-
Belgium
- 12 Yugoslavia
- 10 Israel
- 8 Luxembourg
- 7 Norway
- 6 Germany
- 5 Sweden
- 4 Cyprus
- 3 Austria
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Switzerland
-
Luxembourg
- 12 Germany
- 10 Israel
- 8 Yugoslavia
- 7 Portugal
- 6 United Kingdom
- 5 Switzerland
- 4 Netherlands
- 3 France
- 2 Norway
- 1 Finland
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 | France | Norway | United Kingdom | Sweden | Italy | Turkey | Spain | Switzerland | Finland | Greece | Netherlands | Yugoslavia | Cyprus | Germany | Denmark | Israel | Portugal | Austria | Belgium | Luxembourg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 56 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| Norway | 53 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 2 | |||||||||
| United Kingdom | 79 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 6 | ||||||
| Sweden | 126 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 5 | ||
| Italy | 41 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Turkey | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Spain | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 28 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Finland | 41 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Greece | 32 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 12 | ||||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 66 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Yugoslavia | 125 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 12 | 8 | |||||
| Cyprus | 26 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Germany | 94 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 12 | ||||||
| Denmark | 16 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Israel | 136 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 | |||
| Portugal | 33 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Austria | 53 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||
| Belgium | 13 | 4 | 8 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Luxembourg | 142 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 8 |
On the night
What opened the show, and what filled the interval while the votes came in.
- in the interval
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- Marlène Charell the presenter led a dance number to a medley of German songs that became famous abroad, “Strangers in the Night” among them
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.