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Introduction to the 2024 Edition
The 68th Eurovision Song Contest was certainly one to remember. Malmö hosted the Contest this year following Loreen’s win in 2023 with “Tattoo”. This was the Sweden’s seventh time as hosts and the 15,500 capacity Malmö Arena was selected to stage the event. The presenters for broadcaster SVT were Petra Mede and Malin Åkerman.
Thirty-seven countries participated, the same as in 2023. Romania withdrew for financial reasons but there was a very welcome return for Luxembourg after 31 years.
The EBU decided to retain the voting system introduced in 2023 and despite calls by Norway in particular for the influence of jury voting to be reduced from 50%. This follows several Contests where the choices of the juries were significantly at odds with those of the voting public – and indeed this happened again in the 2024 final.
Congratulations go to winners Switzerland and Nemo who won with his song “The Code”. This was Switzerland’s first win since 1988. Interestingly, it was the jury votes which again decided the winner as only a single voting country’s public awarded Switzerland twelve points compared to 22 countries’ juries awarding his song the maximum. Switzerland finished only fourth in their semi-final and were placed fifth in the final by the public televote. Croatia were runners-up, their best result since becoming an independent country.
We must address the controversies this year. We had the unfortunate spectacle of the first ever disqualification, Joost Klein was runner-up for the Netherlands in the semi-final but was disqualified before the final due to an incident with a member of the production staff which is still being investigated by the police at the time of writing. The Netherlands broadcaster felt this was an over-reaction by the EBU and refused to read out its jury points in the final. We also had several anti-Israel protests outside the venue and booing of the Israeli entry Eden Golan during her performances.
The “Big 5”’s performance was mixed again this year. France finished fourth, Italy seventh and Germany 12th, but the United Kingdom received no points from the televote and Spain finished fourth from bottom.
This year's Complete & Independent Guide contains over 320 pages of analysis, results and statistics. We hope you enjoy it.
Contents
Eurovision Winners since 1956
Section One: Qualifying for the 2024 Contest
National competitions or internal selection QR links to the official videos for each country
Section Two: Eurovision 2024 Contest Details & Votes
2024 First Semi-Final performers and televoting results
2024 Second Semi-Final performers and televoting results
2024 Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2024 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
2019 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
History of 12 points from juries and public since 2016
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
The Long Wait for a Win
League Table of Appearances
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 Final
Complete country-by-country voting analysis since 1975 - who votes for who?
Appendix: Contest Details and Voting 1956 - 2022
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
Contest performers and voting tables : 2020's
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