Here are the United Kingdom’s results of their points from Semi Final 1 and also the Final showing both the jury and televoting votes and it’s a very interesting reading for everyone.
Semifinal One:
Points | Televoting | Jury Voting | Combined Vote |
12 | Greece | Lithuania | Lithuania |
10 | Lithuania | Hungary | Hungary |
08 | Poland | Finland | Greece |
07 | Hungary | Azerbaijan | Iceland |
06 | Iceland | Iceland | Finland |
05 | Portugal | Switzerland | Poland |
04 | Turkey | Serbia | Azerbaijan |
03 | Finland | Norway | Portugal |
02 | Albania | Georgia | Switzerland |
01 | Norway | Malta | Turkey |
Now what I find very interesting about the voting for SF1 is the way the points have gone this year. The jury and the public agree on Iceland, Lithuania and Hungary a lot whilst the public and the jury then go off on their own down the bottom. The jury like the Swiss, the public don’t, the public like Poland the jury don’t. This continues with Azerbaijan and Turkey, I find the most interesting part of the voting Turkey and Norway. Now Norway gets a 1 from the public and 3 from the jury and get 0 points, whilst the public give Turkey 4 and the jury give them 0 and Turkey get through. Now I would have thought that the combination votes would decided the points allocation not how much they got from 1 group. Now let’s have a look at the final voting:
Final:
Points | Televoting | Jury Voting | Combined Vote |
12 | Ireland | Switzerland | Ireland |
10 | Moldova | Italy | Switzerland |
08 | Iceland | Ireland | Moldova |
07 | Lithuania | Austria | Italy |
06 | Spain | Denmark | Lithuania |
05 | Sweden | Serbia | Denmark |
04 | Greece | Georgia | Iceland |
03 | Denmark | Sweden | Sweden |
02 | Hungary | Lithuania | Austria |
01 | Germany | Azerbaijan | Spain |
Now here is the shock of the voting for me, Switzerland went from getting just 5 points from the jury to getting 12 points from the jury in just 4 days, a bit odd but ohh well. We also see the expected 12 from the public to Ireland. There are no real shockers in the final apart from also the fact the Uk gave 0 points to Greece a stop of the run that had been going intermittently for the past few years. Overall this voting was far more predictable that the semi’s and the rest of the contest. Now the BBC is back to focusing on who will represent the Uk in Baku.