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Introduction to the 2009 Edition
Welcome to the revised second edition of our Eurovision guide for 2009! We’ve taken the opportunity to update the first edition of the 2009 guide and to try to incorporate as many of the statistics and analysis that we have developed in later editions.
Looking back on the 2009 Contest after eleven years, the most interesting change was the introduction of separate jury and public voting for the Final, as a response to criticism that there was too much neighbourly and diaspora voting taking place.
The 2009 Contest saw 42 competing nations this year, one fewer than in 2008, Slovakia returned after last participating in 1998, but San Marino withdrew after just one year for financial reasons and Georgia refused to take part after their original song was deemed to include political lyrics and banned.
Russia hosted Eurovision this year with the organisers staging the 54th Contest in Moscow’s Olympic Arena. Broadcaster C1R chose Ivan Urgant and Alsou Abramova to host the Final show. It was the first time Russia had hosted the contest.
Congratulations to the winner Alexander Rybak and to Norway who won Eurovision for the third time. Rybak’s song “Fairytale” was a phenomenal success, breaking the all-time points record and gaining 387 points from a possible 492.
The “Big 5” continue to achieve poor results, with the notable exception of the United Kingdom, for whom Jade Ewen sang her way to fifth place, the UK’s best finish since 2002. Spain and Germany however, both finished in the bottom six.
Contents
Eurovision Winners since 1956
Section One: Qualifying for the 2009 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
2009 First Semi-Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2009 Second Semi-Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2009 Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
Jury/Public voting split
2009 Final: Voting Order & Spokespersons
Round by Round voting & changes to scoreboard
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
Language selection by country
Contestants profile - singers & backing performers
Winners' Ages & Genders since 1956
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
Performance of the "Big 4"
Running Order analysis, where is best to perform?
Winners & losers position in the order of performance since 1975
Highest number of 12 points scored by one entry
Winners with the lowest number of 12 points
12 point allocation over last 10 years
Sharing the love - which countries spread their points the most
Analysis of Hosts performance
Nil points!
Largest and closest winning margins
Performance of debutant countries since 1956
Closest voting relationships
And the countries which don't reciprocate
The 100% club
Countries who have never voted for another
And pairs who never vote for each other
Most points received since 1975
East v West voting
Regional bloc voting
Each Country's Best Friends
Complete country-by-country voting analysis since 1975 - who votes for who?
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