Brussels, Saturday, 9 May 1987
Eurovision 1987, vote by vote
22 songs, 22 countries voting. Ireland won with “Hold Me Now” on 172 points, 31 ahead of Germany.
The result
In finishing order, with the countries that gave each song their highest mark.
- 1 172 pts
Ireland Johnny Logan “Hold Me Now”
Sang no. 20
Top marks from Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Finland and Switzerland
- 2 141 pts
- 3 103 pts
Italy Umberto Tozzi and Raf “Gente di mare”
Sang no. 7
Top marks from Portugal, Spain, Germany, Ireland and Yugoslavia
- 4 92 pts
Yugoslavia Novi fosili “Ja sam za ples (Ја сам за плес)”
Sang no. 21
Top marks from Norway and Turkey
- 5 83 pts
- 5 83 pts
Denmark Bandjo with Anne-Cathrine Herdorf “En lille melodi”
Sang no. 19
- 7 80 pts
- 8 73 pts
- 9 65 pts
Norway Kate Gulbrandsen “Mitt liv”
Sang no. 1
- 10 64 pts
- 11 56 pts
Belgium Liliane Saint-Pierre “Soldiers of Love”
Sang no. 5
- 12 50 pts
- 13 47 pts
United Kingdom Rikki “Only the Light”
Sang no. 14
- 14 44 pts
France Christine Minier “Les mots d'amour n'ont pas de dimanche”
Sang no. 15
Top marks from Luxembourg
- 15 32 pts
Finland Vicky Rosti “Sata salamaa”
Sang no. 18
- 16 28 pts
Iceland Halla Margrét “Hægt og hljótt”
Sang no. 4
- 17 26 pts
Switzerland Carol Rich “Moitié moitié”
Sang no. 22
- 18 15 pts
- 19 10 pts
Spain Patricia Kraus “No estás solo”
Sang no. 9
- 20 8 pts
- 21 4 pts
Luxembourg Plastic Bertrand “Amour amour”
Sang no. 13
- 22 0 pts
Turkey Seyyal Taner and Grup Lokomotif “Şarkım Sevgi Üstüne”
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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Norway
- 12 Yugoslavia
- 10 Finland
- 8 Ireland
- 7 Denmark
- 6 Cyprus
- 5 Belgium
- 4 Iceland
- 3 Germany
- 2 Israel
- 1 France
-
Israel
- 12 Sweden
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Germany
- 7 Yugoslavia
- 6 Denmark
- 5 Netherlands
- 4 Ireland
- 3 Italy
- 2 Belgium
- 1 Switzerland
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Austria
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Germany
- 8 Yugoslavia
- 7 Denmark
- 6 Italy
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Norway
- 3 Belgium
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Israel
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Iceland
read out by Guðrún Skúladóttir
- 12 Germany
- 10 Yugoslavia
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Denmark
- 6 Cyprus
- 5 Israel
- 4 France
- 3 Italy
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Greece
-
Belgium
read out by An Ploegaerts
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Germany
- 8 Yugoslavia
- 7 Norway
- 6 Israel
- 5 Italy
- 4 Iceland
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Greece
- 1 Sweden
-
Sweden
read out by Jan Ellerås
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Norway
- 8 Denmark
- 7 Germany
- 6 Greece
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Israel
- 3 Finland
- 2 Cyprus
- 1 Italy
-
Italy
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Netherlands
- 8 Greece
- 7 Norway
- 6 Belgium
- 5 France
- 4 Germany
- 3 Sweden
- 2 Denmark
- 1 Austria
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Portugal
- 12 Italy
- 10 Israel
- 8 Ireland
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Yugoslavia
- 5 Germany
- 4 Finland
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Luxembourg
- 1 Denmark
-
Spain
- 12 Italy
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Portugal
- 7 Belgium
- 6 Yugoslavia
- 5 Netherlands
- 4 Iceland
- 3 Norway
- 2 Finland
- 1 Germany
-
Turkey
- 12 Yugoslavia
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Italy
- 7 Netherlands
- 6 Germany
- 5 Switzerland
- 4 Belgium
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Sweden
- 1 Denmark
-
Greece
- 12 Cyprus
- 10 Spain
- 8 Denmark
- 7 Austria
- 6 Iceland
- 5 Portugal
- 4 France
- 3 Netherlands
- 2 Yugoslavia
- 1 Finland
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Netherlands
read out by Ralph Inbar
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Germany
- 8 Finland
- 7 Switzerland
- 6 Denmark
- 5 Greece
- 4 Norway
- 3 Israel
- 2 Cyprus
- 1 France
-
Luxembourg
- 12 France
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Netherlands
- 7 Greece
- 6 Germany
- 5 Belgium
- 4 Italy
- 3 Switzerland
- 2 Finland
- 1 United Kingdom
-
United Kingdom
read out by Colin Berry
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Germany
- 8 Belgium
- 7 Denmark
- 6 Cyprus
- 5 Greece
- 4 Israel
- 3 Netherlands
- 2 Luxembourg
- 1 Italy
-
France
- 12 Netherlands
- 10 Israel
- 8 Denmark
- 7 Greece
- 6 Germany
- 5 Cyprus
- 4 Norway
- 3 Sweden
- 2 Yugoslavia
- 1 Ireland
-
Germany
- 12 Italy
- 10 Iceland
- 8 Israel
- 7 Norway
- 6 Ireland
- 5 France
- 4 Belgium
- 3 Cyprus
- 2 Portugal
- 1 Finland
-
Cyprus
- 12 Greece
- 10 Yugoslavia
- 8 Ireland
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Germany
- 5 Belgium
- 4 Switzerland
- 3 Norway
- 2 United Kingdom
- 1 Italy
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Finland
read out by Solveig Herlin
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Germany
- 8 Denmark
- 7 Israel
- 6 Cyprus
- 5 Norway
- 4 Italy
- 3 Belgium
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 United Kingdom
-
Denmark
- 12 Germany
- 10 Cyprus
- 8 Yugoslavia
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Greece
- 5 Ireland
- 4 United Kingdom
- 3 Norway
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Switzerland
-
Ireland
- 12 Italy
- 10 France
- 8 Cyprus
- 7 Germany
- 6 Netherlands
- 5 Israel
- 4 Denmark
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Norway
- 1 Yugoslavia
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Yugoslavia
read out by Ljiljana Tipsarević
- 12 Italy
- 10 Cyprus
- 8 Netherlands
- 7 Germany
- 6 Ireland
- 5 Greece
- 4 Belgium
- 3 Switzerland
- 2 United Kingdom
- 1 Finland
-
Switzerland
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Netherlands
- 8 Israel
- 7 Italy
- 6 Norway
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Cyprus
- 3 Denmark
- 2 France
- 1 Germany
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 22 columns wide, so it is shown on wider screens. Every number in it is in the lists above.
| Song | Total | Norway | Israel | Austria | Iceland | Belgium | Sweden | Italy | Portugal | Spain | Turkey | Greece | Netherlands | Luxembourg | United Kingdom | France | Germany | Cyprus | Finland | Denmark | Ireland | Yugoslavia | Switzerland |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norway | 65 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||
| Israel | 73 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 8 | |||||||||
| Austria | 8 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Iceland | 28 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| Belgium | 56 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Sweden | 50 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Italy | 103 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 7 | ||||||
| Portugal | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Spain | 10 | 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Turkey | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Greece | 64 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Netherlands | 83 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 10 | ||||||||
| Luxembourg | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 47 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||
| France | 44 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Germany | 141 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 1 | ||
| Cyprus | 80 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 4 | |||||||||
| Finland | 32 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Denmark | 83 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | |||||||
| Ireland | 172 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 12 | |||
| Yugoslavia | 92 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 1 | |||||||||
| Switzerland | 26 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
On the night
What opened the show, and what filled the interval while the votes came in.
- in the interval
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- Marc Grauwels the flautist
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.