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Eurovision 2008 Televoting Results

June 2, 2008 by
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Here is Eurovision 2008 Final Score Sheet.More or less, comments about this Eurovision Song Contest concentrate on alleged (or, shall we say – apparent) political voting from Eastern bloc and Nordic countries. Seems that Britain didn’t handle another loss of votes too well and is even considering opting out of the competition. Due to too little neighboring countries? On the other hand, Eurovision officials claim that there is no such thing as political voting and that Russia would have won even if it didn’t get any votes from its neighbors. Well, hardly! But let’s analyze the scores:

Country with the biggest number of 12 points is Armenia. It received the highest score from: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Greece, Netherlands, Poland and Russia.

Russia got 12 points 7 times; from: Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine.

Greece, 6 times; from: Albania, Cyprus, Germany, Romania, San Marino, United Kingdom.

Serbia, 4 times, from: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia and Switzerland.

Azerbaijan received 12 points from Hungary and Turkey, Bosnia from Serbia and Croatia, Denmark from Iceland and Norway, Norway from Finland and Sweden, and Romania from Moldova and Spain.

The following countries received the highest score one time: Albania (from Macedonia), Germany (from Bulgaria), Iceland (from Denmark), Latvia (from Ireland), Spain (from Andorra), Sweden (from Malta), Turkey (from Azerbaijan) and Ukraine from Portugal.

Six of Russia’s sets of 12 points came from former USSR countries and the seventh country that awarded Dima with 12 points is Israel, a country with strong Russian diaspora. Six Western European countries are the only ones that did not give any points to Russia: Denmark, Iceland, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Sweden and San Marino. The Netherlands and France awarded only one point to Dima and Belgium also gave Russia only 3 points.

But let’s not pick on Russia… Same thing happened with other countries.. We can only mention the famous example of Greece and Cyprus as well as Serbia and Croatia who gave 12 points to Bosnia and Bosnia, of course returned the favor.

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16 Comments on "Eurovision 2008 Televoting Results"

  1. mareena-greece on Sun, 22nd Jun 2008 10:28 am 

    umm…hi.I can’t say that I would ever vote Dima Bilan’s song…ok,It was a nice song for the eurovision standars,but I think that the violinist and the famous ice-skating-guy or something,were the ones who made the difference….and of course Russia still has a lot of “friends”,and “neighbours”,so…:-p well…I liked Finland’s song anyway and I still think that it should been voted but…it seems that it wasn’t a good song for eurovision…I don’t know…the song was a reeealy wonderfull hard rock song,but meaby it was not what eurovision fans wanted…you know…the glamourous “pop idol”…a beautifull young girl that dances,or a young guy that sings to the girls “oh I love you (and bla blah…)” with a gay style…(that’s my opinion…ok,I’m a metalhead,I must say again…:-p)…

  2. mareena-greece on Sun, 22nd Jun 2008 10:35 am 

    Kalomoira for example…was the classic type of the “young-girl-dancing”…I didn’t like the song that much…I prefer bosnia…hmm…what was Cyprus thinking of that night…hihihi:lol: yup…politics..:p

  3. fromPoland on Tue, 19th Aug 2008 11:06 pm 

    Too bad that when every country gives his point’s to their neightbours, Poland as always scored 0 from their neightbours, an the only points were from Polish which went to UK & Ireland to find a job :/

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    Ok, ok, I know that Isis Gee wasn’t too good (we’ve got much better singers in eliminations but “somehow” Isis got a max score both from jury and tele-voters) but as everyone can see the 2-semifinals-rule didn’t work in final. Maybe it would be good to add a rule that you can’t vote at 5 countries that have got most points from this country and v.v.?

  4. Norway Is all wee can be on Sun, 1st Mar 2009 1:33 pm 

    You forgot to write that Norway gave to Denmark and Icland and Norway got from Swedena nd Findland,were you wrote: But let’s not pick on Russia…
    Cus if you have notice Norway.Sweden,Findland,icland & Denmark is called Nordic/Scandenavia and that was a bit cheating :) hahaha.

  5. herzegovina on Sun, 1st Mar 2009 3:04 pm 

    It’s Bosnia and HERZEGOVINA… grrrrrr

  6. admin on Sun, 1st Mar 2009 3:20 pm 

    kakvih ti problema imas hercegovina?
    izvini nije mi se dalo da kuckam pun naziv! a u tabelu ne bi ni stao!

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