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Introduction to the 2018 Edition
After the runaway success in 2017 of Portugal’s Salvador Sobral, Lisbon hosted Eurovision this year with the organisers staging the 63rd Contest in the city’s 20,000 seater Altice Arena, and watched by an estimated 186 million television viewers. Broadcaster RTP chose four female presenters to present the two semi-finals and final, Filomena Cautela, Sílvia Alberto, Daniela Ruah and Catarina Furtado. It was the first time Portugal had hosted the contest.
Forty-three countries participated, one more than last year and equalling the record number of participants set in 2008 and 2011. We welcomed back Russia after a one-year absence.
Congratulations to Netta Barzilai and to Israel who won Eurovision for the first time since 1998. This was Israel’s fourth win overall. Cyprus and Czech Republic achieved their best finishes, second and sixth respectively, with Czech Republic’s result being especially notable given how many years they have taken part without reaching the final. Azerbaijan, Romania and Russia lost their 100% record of qualifying for every final.
The “Big 5” continue to achieve mixed results, with Germany and Italy finishing fourth and fifth but perennial under-performers Spain and United Kingdom once again languishing in the bottom five. Hosts Portugal couldn’t repeat last year’s success, spectacularly so, ending up last.
Some interesting facts this year include Norway being by far the worst winner of a semi-final, finishing 15th in the final. 2018 also saw the biggest disparity yet between jury and public voting, Sweden received maximum points from eight countries’ juries but the public of seven of those countries failed to give them a single point. Montenegro’s jurors decided not to award a single point to any of the countries that finished in the top four.
Contents
Eurovision Winners since 1956
Section One: Qualifying for the 2018 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
2018 First Semi-Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2018 Second Semi-Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2018 Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2018 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
Marcel Bezençon Awards
OGAE poll result
Internal selection or national competition
Winners' Ages & Genders since 1956
2018 Contestants profile - singers & backing performers
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
Unluckiest semi-finals for each country
Performance of the "Big 5"
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
Double Douze!
Are You Sure? When Juries and the Public Disagree
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
Sharing The Love: the concentration of points awarded
The host country's performance since 1975
Nil Points!
Highest scores in finals
Largest and smallest winning margins
Performance of debutant countries since 1956
Closest voting relationships
Each Country's Best Friends & their 10 year voting history
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
Jury/Public split of points in finals since 2016
Most Points Received since 1975
East v West - the impact of geographical voting
Bloc voting by juries and the public in the 2018 Final
Complete country-by-country voting analysis since 1975 - who votes for who?
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