Athens, Saturday, 20 May 2006
Eurovision 2006: the final, vote by vote
24 songs, 38 countries voting. Finland won with “Hard Rock Hallelujah” on 292 points, 44 ahead of Russia.
The result
In finishing order, with the countries that gave each song their highest mark.
- 1 292 pts
Finland Lordi “Hard Rock Hallelujah”
Sang no. 17
Top marks from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Poland, United Kingdom, Iceland and Greece
- 2 248 pts
Russia Dima Bilan “Never Let You Go”
Sang no. 10
Top marks from Latvia, Finland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Armenia, Belarus and Israel
- 3 229 pts
Bosnia and Herzegovina Hari Mata Hari “Lejla”
Sang no. 13
Top marks from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland, Monaco, Albania, Macedonia and Turkey
- 4 172 pts
- 5 170 pts
- 6 162 pts
- 7 145 pts
- 8 129 pts
- 9 128 pts
- 10 93 pts
Ireland Brian Kennedy “Every Song Is a Cry for Love”
Sang no. 21
- 11 91 pts
- 12 56 pts
Macedonia Elena Risteska “Ninanajna (Нинанајна)”
Sang no. 11
- 12 56 pts
- 14 36 pts
Norway Christine Guldbrandsen “Alvedansen”
Sang no. 5
- 14 36 pts
Germany Texas Lightning “No No Never”
Sang no. 8
- 16 30 pts
- 16 30 pts
Latvia Vocal Group Cosmos “I Hear Your Heart”
Sang no. 4
- 18 26 pts
Denmark Sidsel Ben Semmane “Twist of Love”
Sang no. 9
- 19 25 pts
United Kingdom Daz Sampson “Teenage Life”
Sang no. 15
- 20 22 pts
- 21 18 pts
- 22 5 pts
France Virginie Pouchain “Il était temps”
Sang no. 19
- 23 4 pts
Israel Eddie Butler “Together We Are One”
Sang no. 3
- 24 1 pts
Malta Fabrizio Faniello “I Do”
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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Slovenia
read out by Peter Poles
- 12 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 10 Croatia
- 8 Finland
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Macedonia
- 5 Romania
- 4 Russia
- 3 Lithuania
- 2 Ukraine
- 1 Ireland
-
Andorra
read out by Xavi Palma
- 12 Spain
- 10 Finland
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Lithuania
- 6 Russia
- 5 Ukraine
- 4 Ireland
- 3 Romania
- 2 United Kingdom
- 1 Greece
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Romania
read out by Andreea Marin Bănică
- 12 Moldova
- 10 Greece
- 8 Russia
- 7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 6 Turkey
- 5 Sweden
- 4 Finland
- 3 Ukraine
- 2 Ireland
- 1 Armenia
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Denmark
read out by Jørgen de Mylius
- 12 Finland
- 10 Sweden
- 8 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 7 Lithuania
- 6 Romania
- 5 Ireland
- 4 United Kingdom
- 3 Germany
- 2 Russia
- 1 Norway
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Latvia
read out by Mārtiņš Freimanis
- 12 Russia
- 10 Lithuania
- 8 Finland
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Norway
- 5 Ukraine
- 4 Ireland
- 3 Germany
- 2 Romania
- 1 United Kingdom
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Portugal
read out by Cristina Alves
- 12 Ukraine
- 10 Romania
- 8 Sweden
- 7 Russia
- 6 Finland
- 5 Ireland
- 4 Lithuania
- 3 Moldova
- 2 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1 Switzerland
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Sweden
read out by Jovan Radomir
- 12 Finland
- 10 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 8 Denmark
- 7 Russia
- 6 Romania
- 5 Ireland
- 4 Greece
- 3 Lithuania
- 2 Norway
- 1 Ukraine
-
Finland
read out by Nina Tapio
- 12 Russia
- 10 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 8 Lithuania
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Romania
- 5 Norway
- 4 Ireland
- 3 Denmark
- 2 Ukraine
- 1 Greece
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Belgium
read out by Yasmine
- 12 Armenia
- 10 Greece
- 8 Finland
- 7 Turkey
- 6 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 5 Sweden
- 4 Lithuania
- 3 Russia
- 2 Romania
- 1 Germany
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Croatia
read out by Mila Horvat
- 12 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 10 Finland
- 8 Macedonia
- 7 Russia
- 6 Lithuania
- 5 Romania
- 4 Ukraine
- 3 Sweden
- 2 Ireland
- 1 United Kingdom
-
Serbia and Montenegro
read out by Jovana Janković
- 12 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 10 Croatia
- 8 Macedonia
- 7 Finland
- 6 Greece
- 5 Russia
- 4 Romania
- 3 Lithuania
- 2 Ukraine
- 1 Sweden
-
Norway
read out by Ingvild Helljesen
- 12 Finland
- 10 Sweden
- 8 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 7 Ireland
- 6 Denmark
- 5 Lithuania
- 4 Romania
- 3 Russia
- 2 United Kingdom
- 1 Germany
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Estonia
read out by Evelin Samuel
- 12 Finland
- 10 Russia
- 8 Lithuania
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Ireland
- 5 Ukraine
- 4 Romania
- 3 Latvia
- 2 United Kingdom
- 1 Denmark
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Ireland
read out by Eimear Quinn
- 12 Lithuania
- 10 Finland
- 8 United Kingdom
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Romania
- 5 Russia
- 4 Latvia
- 3 Germany
- 2 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1 Ukraine
-
Malta
read out by Moira Delia
- 12 Switzerland
- 10 Romania
- 8 Greece
- 7 Finland
- 6 Sweden
- 5 Russia
- 4 Ireland
- 3 United Kingdom
- 2 Ukraine
- 1 Lithuania
-
Lithuania
read out by Lavija Šurnaitė
- 12 Russia
- 10 Finland
- 8 Latvia
- 7 Ukraine
- 6 Ireland
- 5 Sweden
- 4 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 3 Greece
- 2 Armenia
- 1 Romania
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Cyprus
read out by Constantinos Christoforou
- 12 Greece
- 10 Romania
- 8 Russia
- 7 Armenia
- 6 Ukraine
- 5 Finland
- 4 Lithuania
- 3 Switzerland
- 2 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1 United Kingdom
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Netherlands
read out by Paul de Leeuw
- 12 Turkey
- 10 Armenia
- 8 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 7 Finland
- 6 Lithuania
- 5 Greece
- 4 Ireland
- 3 Germany
- 2 Russia
- 1 Ukraine
-
Switzerland
read out by Jubaira Bachmann
- 12 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 10 Turkey
- 8 Finland
- 7 Germany
- 6 Croatia
- 5 Greece
- 4 Macedonia
- 3 Ireland
- 2 Sweden
- 1 Romania
-
Ukraine
read out by Igor Posypayko
- 12 Russia
- 10 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 8 Armenia
- 7 Finland
- 6 Sweden
- 5 Lithuania
- 4 Latvia
- 3 Norway
- 2 Ireland
- 1 Romania
-
Russia
read out by Yana Churikova
- 12 Armenia
- 10 Ukraine
- 8 Finland
- 7 Norway
- 6 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 5 Lithuania
- 4 Romania
- 3 Moldova
- 2 Sweden
- 1 Latvia
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Poland
read out by Maciej Orłoś
- 12 Finland
- 10 Russia
- 8 Lithuania
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Ukraine
- 5 Armenia
- 4 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 3 Romania
- 2 Ireland
- 1 United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
read out by Fearne Cotton
- 12 Finland
- 10 Lithuania
- 8 Ireland
- 7 Greece
- 6 Romania
- 5 Germany
- 4 Sweden
- 3 Turkey
- 2 Latvia
- 1 Russia
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Armenia
read out by Gohar Gasparyan
- 12 Russia
- 10 Ukraine
- 8 Greece
- 7 Macedonia
- 6 Sweden
- 5 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 4 Romania
- 3 Ireland
- 2 France
- 1 Norway
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France
read out by Sophie Jovillard
- 12 Turkey
- 10 Armenia
- 8 Finland
- 7 Romania
- 6 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 5 Greece
- 4 Israel
- 3 Sweden
- 2 Russia
- 1 Ireland
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Belarus
read out by Corrianna
- 12 Russia
- 10 Ukraine
- 8 Armenia
- 7 Finland
- 6 Lithuania
- 5 Sweden
- 4 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 3 Romania
- 2 Greece
- 1 Norway
-
Germany
read out by Thomas Hermanns
- 12 Turkey
- 10 Finland
- 8 Greece
- 7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 6 Russia
- 5 Romania
- 4 Ireland
- 3 Armenia
- 2 Croatia
- 1 Lithuania
-
Spain
read out by Sonia Ferrer
- 12 Romania
- 10 Finland
- 8 Armenia
- 7 Russia
- 6 Sweden
- 5 Germany
- 4 Lithuania
- 3 Ukraine
- 2 Moldova
- 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Moldova
read out by Svetlana Cocoş
- 12 Romania
- 10 Russia
- 8 Ukraine
- 7 Armenia
- 6 Finland
- 5 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 4 Lithuania
- 3 Norway
- 2 Sweden
- 1 Greece
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
read out by Vesna Andree Zaimović
- 12 Croatia
- 10 Turkey
- 8 Macedonia
- 7 Finland
- 6 Russia
- 5 Ukraine
- 4 Switzerland
- 3 Sweden
- 2 Romania
- 1 Greece
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Iceland
read out by Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir
- 12 Finland
- 10 Lithuania
- 8 Denmark
- 7 Sweden
- 6 Ukraine
- 5 Russia
- 4 Norway
- 3 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2 Romania
- 1 Ireland
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Monaco
read out by Églantine Éméyé
- 12 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 10 Ireland
- 8 Latvia
- 7 Lithuania
- 6 Switzerland
- 5 Sweden
- 4 Croatia
- 3 France
- 2 Ukraine
- 1 Norway
-
Israel
read out by Dana Herman
- 12 Russia
- 10 Romania
- 8 Armenia
- 7 Finland
- 6 Ukraine
- 5 Sweden
- 4 Switzerland
- 3 Lithuania
- 2 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1 Turkey
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Albania
read out by Leon Menkshi
- 12 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 10 Sweden
- 8 Greece
- 7 Turkey
- 6 Spain
- 5 Germany
- 4 Russia
- 3 Macedonia
- 2 Romania
- 1 Malta
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Greece
read out by Alexis Kostalas
- 12 Finland
- 10 Armenia
- 8 Russia
- 7 Romania
- 6 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 5 Ukraine
- 4 Lithuania
- 3 Turkey
- 2 Norway
- 1 Moldova
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Bulgaria
read out by Dragomir Simeonov
- 12 Greece
- 10 Russia
- 8 Armenia
- 7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 6 Macedonia
- 5 Finland
- 4 Turkey
- 3 Ukraine
- 2 Romania
- 1 Lithuania
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Macedonia
read out by Martin Vučić
- 12 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 10 Croatia
- 8 Russia
- 7 Greece
- 6 Finland
- 5 Ukraine
- 4 Turkey
- 3 Lithuania
- 2 Romania
- 1 Sweden
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Turkey
read out by Meltem Ersan Yazgan
- 12 Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 10 Armenia
- 8 Ukraine
- 7 Finland
- 6 Macedonia
- 5 Russia
- 4 Greece
- 3 Romania
- 2 Croatia
- 1 Moldova
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 38 columns wide, so it is shown on wider screens. Every number in it is in the lists above.
| Song | Total | Slovenia | Andorra | Romania | Denmark | Latvia | Portugal | Sweden | Finland | Belgium | Croatia | Serbia and Montenegro | Norway | Estonia | Ireland | Malta | Lithuania | Cyprus | Netherlands | Switzerland | Ukraine | Russia | Poland | United Kingdom | Armenia | France | Belarus | Germany | Spain | Moldova | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Iceland | Monaco | Israel | Albania | Greece | Bulgaria | Macedonia | Turkey |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 30 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Moldova | 22 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Israel | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Latvia | 30 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Norway | 36 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spain | 18 | 12 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Malta | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Germany | 36 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Denmark | 26 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Russia | 248 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 5 | |||
| Macedonia | 56 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Romania | 172 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 229 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 12 | ||||||
| Lithuania | 162 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| United Kingdom | 25 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Greece | 128 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Finland | 292 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Ukraine | 145 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 | |||||||||
| France | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Croatia | 56 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ireland | 93 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| Sweden | 170 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 1 | |||||||
| Turkey | 91 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Armenia | 129 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 10 |
On the night
What opened the show, and what filled the interval while the votes came in.
- opened by
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- A ballet on the birth of Greece followed by last year’s winner, Helena Paparizou, with “My Number One”
- in the interval
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- Helena Paparizou “Mambo!”
- “4000 Years of Greek Song” a contemporary ballet with music by Dimitris Papadimitriou, choreographed by Fokas Evangelinos
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.