Dublin, Saturday, 3 May 1997
Eurovision 1997, vote by vote
25 songs, 25 countries voting. The United Kingdom won with “Love Shine a Light” on 227 points, 70 ahead of Ireland.
The result
In finishing order, with the countries that gave each song their highest mark.
- 1 227 pts
United Kingdom Katrina and the Waves “Love Shine a Light”
Sang no. 24
Top marks from Austria, Ireland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, Hungary, Russia, Denmark, France and Croatia
- 2 157 pts
- 3 121 pts
Turkey Şebnem Paker and Grup Ethnic “Dinle”
Sang no. 2
Top marks from Spain, Germany and Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 4 114 pts
- 5 98 pts
Cyprus Hara and Andreas Konstantinou “Mana mou (Μάνα μου)”
Sang no. 1
Top marks from Greece and Iceland
- 6 96 pts
- 7 95 pts
- 8 82 pts
- 9 66 pts
- 10 60 pts
Slovenia Tanja Ribič “Zbudi se”
Sang no. 6
- 11 54 pts
Poland Anna Maria Jopek “Ale jestem”
Sang no. 12
- 12 39 pts
- 12 39 pts
- 14 36 pts
- 15 33 pts
- 16 25 pts
- 17 24 pts
- 18 22 pts
Germany Bianca Shomburg “Zeit”
Sang no. 11
- 18 22 pts
Bosnia and Herzegovina Alma Čardžić “Goodbye”
Sang no. 14
- 20 18 pts
Iceland Paul Oscar “Minn hinsti dans”
Sang no. 25
- 21 12 pts
Austria Bettina Soriat “One Step”
Sang no. 4
- 22 5 pts
Switzerland Barbara Berta “Dentro di me”
Sang no. 7
- 22 5 pts
Netherlands Mrs. Einstein “Niemand heeft nog tijd”
Sang no. 8
- 24 0 pts
Norway Tor Endresen “San Francisco”
Sang no. 3
- 24 0 pts
Portugal Célia Lawson “Antes do adeus”
Sang no. 15
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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Cyprus
read out by Marios Skordis
- 12 Greece
- 10 Spain
- 8 Ireland
- 7 United Kingdom
- 6 Italy
- 5 Malta
- 4 Croatia
- 3 France
- 2 Slovenia
- 1 Estonia
-
Turkey
read out by Ömer Önder
- 12 Malta
- 10 Slovenia
- 8 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 7 United Kingdom
- 6 Ireland
- 5 Italy
- 4 Spain
- 3 Hungary
- 2 France
- 1 Netherlands
-
Norway
read out by Ragnhild Sælthun Fjørtoft
- 12 France
- 10 Malta
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Denmark
- 6 United Kingdom
- 5 Greece
- 4 Poland
- 3 Ireland
- 2 Cyprus
- 1 Russia
-
Austria
read out by Adriana Zartl
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Poland
- 7 Turkey
- 6 Estonia
- 5 Russia
- 4 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 3 Germany
- 2 Iceland
- 1 Italy
-
Ireland
read out by Eileen Dunne
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 France
- 8 Estonia
- 7 Malta
- 6 Spain
- 5 Sweden
- 4 Hungary
- 3 Cyprus
- 2 Turkey
- 1 Italy
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Slovenia
read out by Mojca Mavec
- 12 Russia
- 10 Italy
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Poland
- 6 Sweden
- 5 Spain
- 4 Cyprus
- 3 Estonia
- 2 France
- 1 Ireland
-
Switzerland
read out by Sandy Altermatt
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Italy
- 8 Spain
- 7 Ireland
- 6 Turkey
- 5 Germany
- 4 Cyprus
- 3 France
- 2 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1 Denmark
-
Netherlands
read out by Corry Brokken
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Cyprus
- 8 Russia
- 7 Italy
- 6 Spain
- 5 France
- 4 Ireland
- 3 Austria
- 2 Turkey
- 1 Poland
-
Italy
read out by Peppi Franzelin
- 12 Estonia
- 10 Ireland
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Turkey
- 6 Malta
- 5 Germany
- 4 Cyprus
- 3 Spain
- 2 Switzerland
- 1 Poland
-
Spain
read out by Belén Fernández de Henestrosa
- 12 Turkey
- 10 Cyprus
- 8 Italy
- 7 Greece
- 6 Ireland
- 5 United Kingdom
- 4 Estonia
- 3 Switzerland
- 2 Poland
- 1 Malta
-
Germany
read out by Christina Mänz
- 12 Turkey
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Ireland
- 7 Estonia
- 6 Poland
- 5 Cyprus
- 4 Italy
- 3 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2 Spain
- 1 Croatia
-
Poland
read out by Jan Chojnacki
- 12 France
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Italy
- 7 Ireland
- 6 Estonia
- 5 Hungary
- 4 Spain
- 3 Croatia
- 2 Slovenia
- 1 Austria
-
Estonia
read out by Helene Tedre
- 12 France
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Ireland
- 7 Russia
- 6 Turkey
- 5 Hungary
- 4 Slovenia
- 3 Poland
- 2 Iceland
- 1 Cyprus
-
Bosnia and Herzegovina
read out by Segmedina Srna
- 12 Turkey
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Ireland
- 7 Slovenia
- 6 Italy
- 5 Malta
- 4 Poland
- 3 France
- 2 Croatia
- 1 Estonia
-
Portugal
read out by Cristina Rocha
- 12 Italy
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Spain
- 7 United Kingdom
- 6 France
- 5 Turkey
- 4 Slovenia
- 3 Cyprus
- 2 Poland
- 1 Estonia
-
Sweden
read out by Gösta Hanson
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Iceland
- 7 Denmark
- 6 Turkey
- 5 Croatia
- 4 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 3 Italy
- 2 France
- 1 Estonia
-
Greece
read out by Niki Venega
- 12 Cyprus
- 10 United Kingdom
- 8 Malta
- 7 Turkey
- 6 Spain
- 5 Italy
- 4 France
- 3 Slovenia
- 2 Denmark
- 1 Poland
-
Malta
read out by Anna Bonanno
- 12 Spain
- 10 Turkey
- 8 Croatia
- 7 Cyprus
- 6 Greece
- 5 Slovenia
- 4 Netherlands
- 3 Germany
- 2 Hungary
- 1 United Kingdom
-
Hungary
read out by Györgyi Albert
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Spain
- 8 Ireland
- 7 Poland
- 6 Turkey
- 5 Austria
- 4 Estonia
- 3 Italy
- 2 France
- 1 Germany
-
Russia
read out by Arina Sharapova
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Slovenia
- 8 Spain
- 7 Italy
- 6 France
- 5 Ireland
- 4 Turkey
- 3 Austria
- 2 Greece
- 1 Cyprus
-
Denmark
read out by Bent Henius
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Estonia
- 7 Cyprus
- 6 Sweden
- 5 Poland
- 4 Italy
- 3 Malta
- 2 Spain
- 1 France
-
France
read out by Frédéric Ferrer and Marie Myriam
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Estonia
- 7 Slovenia
- 6 Turkey
- 5 Hungary
- 4 Cyprus
- 3 Poland
- 2 Spain
- 1 Malta
-
Croatia
read out by Davor Meštrović
- 12 United Kingdom
- 10 Italy
- 8 Malta
- 7 Greece
- 6 Ireland
- 5 Germany
- 4 Cyprus
- 3 Slovenia
- 2 Hungary
- 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina
-
United Kingdom
read out by Colin Berry
- 12 Ireland
- 10 Estonia
- 8 Hungary
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Iceland
- 5 Cyprus
- 4 Turkey
- 3 Italy
- 2 Denmark
- 1 Croatia
-
Iceland
read out by Svanhildur Konráðsdóttir
- 12 Cyprus
- 10 France
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Turkey
- 6 Denmark
- 5 Hungary
- 4 Sweden
- 3 Slovenia
- 2 Estonia
- 1 Italy
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 25 columns wide, so it is shown on wider screens. Every number in it is in the lists above.
| Song | Total | Cyprus | Turkey | Norway | Austria | Ireland | Slovenia | Switzerland | Netherlands | Italy | Spain | Germany | Poland | Estonia | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Portugal | Sweden | Greece | Malta | Hungary | Russia | Denmark | France | Croatia | United Kingdom | Iceland |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyprus | 98 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 12 | |||||||
| Turkey | 121 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 7 | |||||||
| Norway | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Austria | 12 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Ireland | 157 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 12 | ||||
| Slovenia | 60 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 5 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 5 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Italy | 114 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Spain | 96 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Germany | 22 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Poland | 54 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Estonia | 82 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 2 | |||||||||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 22 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Portugal | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sweden | 36 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Greece | 39 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Malta | 66 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Hungary | 39 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Russia | 33 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Denmark | 25 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
| France | 95 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10 | ||||||||
| Croatia | 24 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 227 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 8 | |
| Iceland | 18 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 |
On the night
What opened the show, and what filled the interval while the votes came in.
- opened by
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- Good-luck messages from past winners and hosts to that night’s contestants
- in the interval
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- Boyzone “Let the Message Run Free”, with the co-presenter Ronan Keating singing lead
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.