Finland heads into the jury final this evening as the clear favourite to take victory in the 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria.
The betting markets continue to back Finland as the favourite to take victory in Vienna tomorrow night, ahead of the 35 juries across Europe and Australia voting on the performances. Australia has continued to pull away from the rest of the chasing pack now being 8 percentage points clear of Greece. Romania is also now fifth favourite for victory, its best position in the betting odds for well over a decade.
In contrast, France has fallen out of contention having been a favourite going into the contest, but now sitting ninth with the betting public. France’s fall comes as Bulgaria has climbed further since this morning, now being seventh favourite and sitting 1 percentage point behind Denmark, who’s chance of victory appears to be limited having been drawn to open the contest.
The latest odds according to Eurovision World are (change since May 14 09:00 am):
- Finland – Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen – “Liekinheitin” – 43.2% (+4.3%)
- Australia – Delta Goodrem – “Eclipse” – 16.2% (0.9%)
- Greece – Akylas – “Ferto” – 8.2% (-1.3%)
- Israel – Noam Bettan – “Michelle” – 6.3% (no change)
- Romania – Alexandra Căpitănescu – “Choke Me” – 5.6% (+1 place, +1.4%)
- Denmark – Søren Torpegaard Lund – “Før vi går hjem” – 3.7% (-1 place, -1.9%)
- Bulgaria – DARA – “Bangaranga” – 2.7% (+1 place, +0.6%)
- Italy – Sal Da Vinci – “Per sempre si” – 2.4% (+1 place, -0.1%)
- France – Monroe – “Regarde !” – 1.9% (-2 places, -1.2%)
- Malta – Aidan – “Bella” – 1.6% (-0.2%)
- Ukraine – Leléka – “Ridnym” – 1.1% (-0.3%)
- Czechia – Daniel Zizika – “Crossroads” – 1.1% (-0.2%)
- Moldova – Satoshi – “Viva Moldova!” – 0.9% (+1 place, -0.2%)
- Sweden – Felicia – “My System” – 0.9% (-1 place, -0.2%)
- Croatia – Lelek – “Andromeda” – 1.2% (no change)
- Albania – Alis – “Nân” – 0.6% (+1 place)
- Cyprus – Antigoni – “Jalla” – 0.6% (-1 place, -0.2%)
- Norway – Jonas Lovv – “Ya Ya Ya” – 0.4% (+0.1%)
- Serbia – Lavina – “Kraj mene” – 0.4% (-0.1%)
- Poland – Alicja – “Pray” – 0.3% (+1 place)
- United Kingdom – Look Mum No Computer – “Eins, zwei, drei” – 0.4% (-1 place, -0.1%)
- Lithuania – Lion Ceecah – “Sólo quiero más” – 0.3% (no change)
- Germany – Sarah Engels – “Fire” – 0.3% (no change)
- Belgium – Essyla – “Dancing on the Ice” – 0.2% (no change)
- Austria – Cosmó – “Tanzschien” – 0.2% (no change)
Source: Eurovision World
The fact that it is very easy this year to vote online more than 10 times using virtual debit cards (I voted 11 times last night) could very easily be exploited by a certain country.
It’s also quite easy to swap countries and vote in multiple countries as long as you have a debit card from that country (and possibly a false but real address). I’ll be attempting to vote (reluctantly) for the UK, from the UK using an Australian debit card tomorrow night.