Oslo, Saturday, 18 May 1996
Eurovision 1996, vote by vote
23 songs, 23 countries voting. Ireland won with “The Voice” on 162 points, 48 ahead of Norway.
The result
In finishing order, with the countries that gave each song their highest mark.
- 1 162 pts
Ireland Eimear Quinn “The Voice”
Sang no. 17
Top marks from Turkey, Switzerland, Estonia, Slovenia, Netherlands, Poland and Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2 114 pts
Norway Elisabeth Andreassen “I evighet”
Sang no. 12
- 3 100 pts
- 4 98 pts
Croatia Maja Blagdan “Sveta ljubav”
Sang no. 7
- 5 94 pts
Estonia Maarja-Liis Ilus and Ivo Linna “Kaelakee hääl”
Sang no. 11
Top marks from Finland, Iceland and Sweden
- 6 92 pts
- 7 78 pts
- 8 77 pts
- 9 72 pts
Cyprus Constantinos “Mono gia mas (Μόνο για μας)”
Sang no. 5
Top marks from United Kingdom and Greece
- 10 68 pts
- 10 68 pts
- 12 57 pts
Turkey Şebnem Paker “Beşinci Mevsim”
Sang no. 1
- 13 51 pts
Iceland Anna Mjöll “Sjúbídú”
Sang no. 19
- 14 36 pts
Greece Marianna Efstratiou “Emis forame to himona anixiatika (Εμείς φοράμε το χειμώνα ανοιξιάτικα)”
Sang no. 10
- 15 31 pts
Poland Kasia Kowalska “Chcę znać swój grzech”
Sang no. 20
- 16 22 pts
Switzerland Kathy Leander “Mon cœur l'aime”
Sang no. 9
- 16 22 pts
- 18 19 pts
Slovakia Marcel Palonder “Kým nás máš”
Sang no. 22
- 19 18 pts
France Dan Ar Braz and l'Héritage des Celtes “Diwanit bugale”
Sang no. 13
- 20 17 pts
Spain Antonio Carbonell “Ay, qué deseo”
Sang no. 3
- 21 16 pts
- 22 13 pts
Bosnia and Herzegovina Amila Glamočak “Za našu ljubav”
Sang no. 21
- 23 9 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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Turkey
read out by Ömer Önder
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Malta
- 8 Croatia
- 7 Poland
- 6 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 5 Portugal
- 4 Austria
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Norway
- 1 Netherlands
-
United Kingdom
read out by Colin Berry
- 12 Cyprus
- 10 Estonia
- 8 Norway
- 7 Greece
- 6 Turkey
- 5 Belgium
- 4 Croatia
- 3 Switzerland
- 2 Portugal
- 1 France
-
Spain
read out by Belén Fernández de Henestrosa
- 12 Belgium
- 10 Malta
- 8 Turkey
- 7 Cyprus
- 6 Netherlands
- 5 Croatia
- 4 Estonia
- 3 Iceland
- 2 Slovakia
- 1 Slovenia
-
Portugal
read out by Cristina Rocha
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Croatia
- 8 Ireland
- 7 Netherlands
- 6 Iceland
- 5 Austria
- 4 Sweden
- 3 Cyprus
- 2 Norway
- 1 France
-
Cyprus
read out by Marios Skordis
- 12 Portugal
- 10 Greece
- 8 Croatia
- 7 Estonia
- 6 Ireland
- 5 Netherlands
- 4 Poland
- 3 Norway
- 2 Spain
- 1 United Kingdom
-
Malta
read out by Ruth Amaira
- 12 Austria
- 10 Turkey
- 8 Slovakia
- 7 Croatia
- 6 United Kingdom
- 5 Spain
- 4 Ireland
- 3 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2 Cyprus
- 1 Greece
-
Croatia
read out by Daniela Trbović
- 12 Malta
- 10 Portugal
- 8 Cyprus
- 7 United Kingdom
- 6 Slovenia
- 5 Norway
- 4 Spain
- 3 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2 Belgium
- 1 Turkey
-
Austria
read out by Martina Rupp
- 12 Netherlands
- 10 Sweden
- 8 Norway
- 7 Ireland
- 6 Iceland
- 5 Estonia
- 4 Poland
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Cyprus
- 1 Portugal
-
Switzerland
read out by Yves Ménestrier
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Portugal
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Norway
- 6 Turkey
- 5 Cyprus
- 4 United Kingdom
- 3 Netherlands
- 2 Greece
- 1 Croatia
-
Greece
read out by Niki Venega
- 12 Cyprus
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Malta
- 7 Poland
- 6 Spain
- 5 Portugal
- 4 Slovakia
- 3 Iceland
- 2 Austria
- 1 Croatia
-
Estonia
read out by Annika Talvik
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Sweden
- 8 Iceland
- 7 Austria
- 6 Croatia
- 5 Norway
- 4 Netherlands
- 3 France
- 2 United Kingdom
- 1 Belgium
-
Norway
read out by Ragnhild Sælthun Fjørtoft
- 12 Portugal
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Estonia
- 7 Croatia
- 6 Sweden
- 5 Iceland
- 4 France
- 3 Greece
- 2 Finland
- 1 Malta
-
France
read out by Laurent Broomhead
- 12 Austria
- 10 Netherlands
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Norway
- 6 Ireland
- 5 Portugal
- 4 Turkey
- 3 Sweden
- 2 Cyprus
- 1 Estonia
-
Slovenia
read out by Mario Galunič
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Norway
- 8 Estonia
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Iceland
- 5 Netherlands
- 4 Malta
- 3 Croatia
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Austria
-
Netherlands
read out by Marcha
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Norway
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Turkey
- 6 Portugal
- 5 Croatia
- 4 Switzerland
- 3 Estonia
- 2 Belgium
- 1 Greece
-
Belgium
read out by An Ploegaerts
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Sweden
- 8 Norway
- 7 France
- 6 Portugal
- 5 Turkey
- 4 Croatia
- 3 Ireland
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Netherlands
-
Ireland
read out by Eileen Dunne
- 12 Sweden
- 10 Iceland
- 8 Austria
- 7 Norway
- 6 Croatia
- 5 Netherlands
- 4 Switzerland
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Estonia
- 1 Cyprus
-
Finland
read out by Solveig Herlin
- 12 Estonia
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Norway
- 6 Cyprus
- 5 Turkey
- 4 Switzerland
- 3 Portugal
- 2 France
- 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina
-
Iceland
read out by Svanhildur Konráðsdóttir
- 12 Estonia
- 10 Portugal
- 8 Norway
- 7 Finland
- 6 Sweden
- 5 Croatia
- 4 United Kingdom
- 3 Switzerland
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Slovenia
-
Poland
read out by Jan Chojnacki
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Estonia
- 8 Austria
- 7 Netherlands
- 6 Malta
- 5 Slovakia
- 4 Norway
- 3 Iceland
- 2 Croatia
- 1 Greece
-
Bosnia and Herzegovina
read out by Segmedina Srna
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Croatia
- 8 Slovenia
- 7 Poland
- 6 Austria
- 5 Turkey
- 4 Sweden
- 3 Norway
- 2 Netherlands
- 1 Portugal
-
Slovakia
read out by Alena Heribanová
- 12 Malta
- 10 Cyprus
- 8 Greece
- 7 Ireland
- 6 United Kingdom
- 5 Croatia
- 4 Sweden
- 3 Austria
- 2 Poland
- 1 Iceland
-
Sweden
read out by Ulla Rundqvist
- 12 Estonia
- 10 Norway
- 8 Netherlands
- 7 Ireland
- 6 United Kingdom
- 5 Malta
- 4 Portugal
- 3 Greece
- 2 Cyprus
- 1 Croatia
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 23 columns wide, so it is shown on wider screens. Every number in it is in the lists above.
| Song | Total | Turkey | United Kingdom | Spain | Portugal | Cyprus | Malta | Croatia | Austria | Switzerland | Greece | Estonia | Norway | France | Slovenia | Netherlands | Belgium | Ireland | Finland | Iceland | Poland | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Slovakia | Sweden |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | 57 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 77 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | |||||||||
| Spain | 17 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Portugal | 92 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| Cyprus | 72 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Malta | 68 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Croatia | 98 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| Austria | 68 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 22 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Greece | 36 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Estonia | 94 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Norway | 114 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 10 | |||||
| France | 18 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Slovenia | 16 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 78 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 8 | ||||||||
| Belgium | 22 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ireland | 162 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 7 | |||||
| Finland | 9 | 2 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Iceland | 51 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Poland | 31 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 13 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Slovakia | 19 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sweden | 100 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
On the night
What opened the show, and what filled the interval while the votes came in.
- opened by
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- Morten Harket the co-host sang “Heaven’s Not for Saints”
- in the interval
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- “Vardebrenning” (Beacon Burning) a ballet and film created by Petter Skavlan
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.