Voting at the Eurovision Song Contest

The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest is determined by a positional voting system. The most recent version of the system was implemented in the 2023 contest. Each participating country awards two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points, based on their ten favourite songs from other countries. One set of picks comes from their professional jury, and the other from televoting in their country. Only the set from televoting is used in the semi-finals. Both sets from jury and televoting are used in the final. Overview Small, demographically-balanced juries assembled by each participating broadcaster and made up of ordinary people had been used to rank the entries and award the points from each country. After the widespread use of telephone voting in 1998, the ranking resorts to juries only in the event of a televoting malfunctions. In 2003, for example, Eircom's telephone polling system malfunctioned. Irish broadcaster RTÉ did not receive the polling results...