Dublin, Saturday, 30 April 1988
Eurovision 1988, vote by vote
21 songs, 21 countries voting. Switzerland won with “Ne partez pas sans moi” on 137 points, 1 ahead of the United Kingdom.
The result
In finishing order, with the countries that gave each song their highest mark.
- 1 137 pts
Switzerland Céline Dion “Ne partez pas sans moi”
Sang no. 9
Top marks from Sweden, Germany and Portugal
- 2 136 pts
- 3 92 pts
Denmark Hot Eyes “Ka' du se hva' jeg sa'”
Sang no. 13
Top marks from Netherlands, Austria and France
- 4 90 pts
- 5 88 pts
- 6 87 pts
- 7 85 pts
Israel Yardena Arazi “Ben Adam (בן אדם)”
Sang no. 8
- 8 79 pts
- 9 70 pts
- 10 64 pts
- 11 58 pts
- 12 52 pts
- 12 52 pts
Italy Luca Barbarossa “Ti scrivo”
Sang no. 18
- 14 48 pts
Germany Maxi & Chris Garden “Lied für einen Freund”
Sang no. 11
- 15 37 pts
- 16 20 pts
- 17 10 pts
Greece Afroditi Fryda “Clown (Κλόουν)”
Sang no. 14
- 18 5 pts
- 18 5 pts
- 20 3 pts
- 21 0 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.
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Iceland
read out by Guðrún Skúladóttir
- 12 Yugoslavia
- 10 Denmark
- 8 Germany
- 7 Switzerland
- 6 Israel
- 5 Norway
- 4 Luxembourg
- 3 Sweden
- 2 Spain
- 1 United Kingdom
-
Sweden
read out by Maud Uppling
- 12 Switzerland
- 10 Luxembourg
- 8 Norway
- 7 Ireland
- 6 Yugoslavia
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Turkey
- 3 Denmark
- 2 France
- 1 Iceland
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Finland
read out by Solveig Herlin
- 12 Luxembourg
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Italy
- 7 Norway
- 6 Israel
- 5 Switzerland
- 4 Denmark
- 3 France
- 2 Ireland
- 1 Yugoslavia
-
United Kingdom
read out by Colin Berry
- 12 Norway
- 10 Switzerland
- 8 Yugoslavia
- 7 Luxembourg
- 6 Netherlands
- 5 Germany
- 4 Israel
- 3 Ireland
- 2 Sweden
- 1 Turkey
-
Turkey
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Switzerland
- 8 France
- 7 Yugoslavia
- 6 Netherlands
- 5 Spain
- 4 Italy
- 3 Greece
- 2 Ireland
- 1 Germany
-
Spain
- 12 Ireland
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Switzerland
- 7 Italy
- 6 Israel
- 5 Turkey
- 4 Portugal
- 3 Germany
- 2 France
- 1 Denmark
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Netherlands
- 12 Denmark
- 10 Switzerland
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Norway
- 6 Ireland
- 5 Luxembourg
- 4 Iceland
- 3 Israel
- 2 France
- 1 Turkey
-
Israel
- 12 Yugoslavia
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Turkey
- 7 Netherlands
- 6 Denmark
- 5 Germany
- 4 Switzerland
- 3 Finland
- 2 Spain
- 1 Norway
-
Switzerland
- 12 Luxembourg
- 10 Israel
- 8 Italy
- 7 Netherlands
- 6 Spain
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Ireland
- 3 France
- 2 Yugoslavia
- 1 Denmark
-
Ireland
read out by John Skehan
- 12 Luxembourg
- 10 Switzerland
- 8 Norway
- 7 United Kingdom
- 6 Germany
- 5 Sweden
- 4 Denmark
- 3 Yugoslavia
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Israel
-
Germany
- 12 Switzerland
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Turkey
- 7 Ireland
- 6 Netherlands
- 5 Israel
- 4 Denmark
- 3 France
- 2 Italy
- 1 Norway
-
Austria
- 12 Denmark
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Spain
- 7 France
- 6 Ireland
- 5 Italy
- 4 Yugoslavia
- 3 Norway
- 2 Israel
- 1 Luxembourg
-
Denmark
- 12 Yugoslavia
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Ireland
- 6 Germany
- 5 Norway
- 4 Iceland
- 3 France
- 2 Luxembourg
- 1 Spain
-
Greece
- 12 Netherlands
- 10 Switzerland
- 8 Spain
- 7 Norway
- 6 United Kingdom
- 5 France
- 4 Yugoslavia
- 3 Israel
- 2 Luxembourg
- 1 Portugal
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Norway
read out by Andreas Diesen
- 12 Sweden
- 10 Denmark
- 8 Switzerland
- 7 Ireland
- 6 Luxembourg
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Germany
- 3 Italy
- 2 Spain
- 1 France
-
Belgium
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Israel
- 8 Luxembourg
- 7 Denmark
- 6 Spain
- 5 Ireland
- 4 Switzerland
- 3 Norway
- 2 France
- 1 Sweden
-
Luxembourg
- 12 Netherlands
- 10 France
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Yugoslavia
- 6 Spain
- 5 Israel
- 4 Turkey
- 3 Sweden
- 2 Italy
- 1 Switzerland
-
Italy
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Sweden
- 8 Spain
- 7 Switzerland
- 6 Yugoslavia
- 5 Netherlands
- 4 Norway
- 3 Israel
- 2 Luxembourg
- 1 Iceland
-
France
- 12 Denmark
- 10 Israel
- 8 Italy
- 7 Greece
- 6 Turkey
- 5 Belgium
- 4 Ireland
- 3 Yugoslavia
- 2 Iceland
- 1 Switzerland
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Portugal
- 12 Switzerland
- 10 Israel
- 8 Iceland
- 7 Norway
- 6 Denmark
- 5 Ireland
- 4 Luxembourg
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Germany
- 1 France
-
Yugoslavia
read out by Miša Molk
- 12 France
- 10 Norway
- 8 Germany
- 7 Netherlands
- 6 Switzerland
- 5 Italy
- 4 Spain
- 3 Luxembourg
- 2 Ireland
- 1 Israel
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 21 columns wide, so it is shown on wider screens. Every number in it is in the lists above.
| Song | Total | Iceland | Sweden | Finland | United Kingdom | Turkey | Spain | Netherlands | Israel | Switzerland | Ireland | Germany | Austria | Denmark | Greece | Norway | Belgium | Luxembourg | Italy | France | Portugal | Yugoslavia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iceland | 20 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |||||||||||||||
| Sweden | 52 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Finland | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 136 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 3 | ||||
| Turkey | 37 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||||||
| Spain | 58 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 4 | |||||||||
| Netherlands | 70 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 7 | |||||||||||
| Israel | 85 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 1 | |||||
| Switzerland | 137 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 12 | 6 | |||
| Ireland | 79 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
| Germany | 48 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Austria | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Denmark | 92 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 6 | |||||||
| Greece | 10 | 3 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Norway | 88 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 | ||||||
| Belgium | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Luxembourg | 90 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | ||||||
| Italy | 52 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 5 | |||||||||||
| France | 64 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 12 | ||||||
| Portugal | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 87 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 |
On the night
What opened the show, and what filled the interval while the votes came in.
- opened by
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- A film of Ireland from prehistoric Celtic monuments to modern Dublin
- in the interval
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- Hothouse Flowers the video for “Don’t Go”, introduced from the stage in Irish and English by the singer Liam Ó Maonlaí at the piano
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.