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Introduction to the 2016 Edition
Sweden hosted Eurovision this year with the organisers staging the 61st Contest in the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm. Broadcaster SVT chose Petra Mede and last year’s winner Måns Zelmerlöw to present the shows. It was the sixth time Sweden had hosted the contest since 1975 and the third time it had been held in Stockholm. It was watched by an estimated record-breaking 204 million television viewers.
Forty-two countries participated, two more than last year, with Australia returning after their successful debut last year. We welcomed back Bosnia & Herzegovina after three years, Croatia and Bulgaria after two years and Ukraine who missed the 2015 Contest. Sadly, Portugal decided to withdraw, which meant they missed the Contest for only the fourth time since 1964 but it follows a succession of poor performances. More bizarrely, we also lost Romania only three weeks before the Contest, who were withdrawn due to consistent non-payment of debts to the EBU. There was plenty of sympathy for Ovidiu Anton, who had been selected to represent Romania with the song “Moment of Silence”, who at least has the consolation of being on the official CD of the Contest, despite not appearing in the show.
The big change to the Contest this year was the new points system, with each country now awarding two sets of points, on from their juries and one from their public televoting. Apart from doubling the number of points countries can now receive, it is widely acknowledged that the revealing of the public votes after the jury votes and in ascending order, did increase the tension and made for a more entertaining experience.
Congratulations to Jamala (Susana Jamaladinova) and to Ukraine who won Eurovision for the second time in their history with “1944”. Australia finished as runners-up in only their second appearance but must be disappointed after leading the Contest from the eighth round of jury voting, before discovering at the announcement of the last set of public voting that their lead of 109 points after the jury voting wasn’t enough. If the previous voting system had been in effect, Australia would have won by 41 points.
Ukraine are the first winners since the introduction of separate juries and public voting in 2009 to win Eurovision without being most popular with either the juries (Australia this year) or the public (who voted for Russia). The most remarkable result in some ways was Poland, who were rock bottom of the jury voting with just 7 points but who received the third highest points from the jury.
The “Big 5” continued with their run of dismal results this year, with the notable exception of France, who achieved their best result for many years, finishing sixth. Spain, United Kingdom and Germany occupied three of the bottom five places.
The 2016 Edition of the Complete & Independent Guide is the 9th edition of the book and as usual it’s packed with details of every Contest since 1956 along with plenty of new analysis, in 30 extra pages. The change in the way the points were allocated has presented some interesting challenges and in deciding how to present the statistics from now on we’ve tried to take into account the need to make the comparisons with previous years meaningful. That means that sometimes the statistics treat the new system separately, sometimes they are combined with previous years and sometimes the figures for 2016 are recalculated as if the previous system was still being used.
Finally, a thought for Sir Terry Wogan who passed away this year. He presented the BBC’s coverage of Eurovision on the radio for the first time in 1971 and then television until 2008. For most of us in the UK he will always be fondly remembered for his warmth, his humorous commentary and his ability to point out the absurdities of the show while clearly taking it very seriously. His replacement, Graham Norton said the best advice Sir Terry gave him was not to start drinking until song number 9.
Contents
Eurovision Winners since 1956
Section One: Qualifying for the 2016 Contest
Section Two: Contest Details & Votes
Contest performers and voting tables: 1950's
Contest performers and voting tables: 1960's
Contest performers and voting tables: 1970's
Contest performers and voting tables: 1980's
Contest performers and voting tables: 1990's
Contest performers and voting tables: 2000's
Contest performers and voting tables : 2010's
2016 First Semi-Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2016 Second Semi-Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2016 Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2016 Final: Voting Order & Spokespersons
Round by Round voting & changes to scoreboard: Jury Voting
Round by Round voting & changes to scoreboard: Public Televoting & combined results
Previous voting sytem: First Semi-Final results
Previous voting sytem: Second Semi-Final results
Previous voting sytem: Final results
Country-by-Country History
Section Three: Statistics & Analysis
Predicting the Winners, the history of votes for the best song
Predicting the Winners, who gives the most 12's and who gives nothing
Pre-Contest Betting Odds
Pre-Contest Official Video Youtube Views
Marcel Bezençon Awards
OGAE poll result
Internal selection or national competition
Winners' Ages & Genders since 1956
2016 Contestants profile - singers & backing performers
9 Year Language history by country
Most Successful Countries League Table
Least Successful Countries League Table
Most Finishes in Top 3
Most Finishes in Bottom 3
Best & worst at qualifying from the semi-finals
Best semi-final to compete in
Most consecutive semi-final failures
Performance of debutant countries since 1956
Running Order analysis, where is best to perform? Previous voting system
Running Order analysis, where is best to perform? New voting System
Winners & losers position in the order of performance since 1975
Performance of the "Big 5"
Double Douze!
Highest number of 12's received by one country
Lowest number of 12's received by a winning country
12 Points Go To… a 10 year history by country
The host country's performance since 1975
Nil Points!
Highest scores in finals
Largest and smallest winning margins
Closest voting relationships
The most one-sided voting - who doesn't reciprocate?
And countries who have never voted for another
The least friendly pairs of countries: all results since 1975
The least friendly pairs of countries: the effect of the public vote from 2016 onwards
East v West - the impact of geographical voting
Complete country-by-country voting analysis since 1975 - who votes for who?
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