The Netherlands have won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, Israel with a total of 492 points.
Tonight the Grand Final of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest took place in Expo Tel Aviv, with twenty-six countries in the running. After two semi-finals, twenty acts joined the Big Five and the host nation of Israel, for the 64th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Duncan Laurence has brought The Netherlands the victory after 44 years, having last won in 1975. Leading up to the contest, he was the favourite to win.
Full Results
- Netherlands – 492 points
- Italy – 465 points
- Russia – 369 points
- Switzerland – 360 points
- Norway – 338 points
- Sweden – 332 points
- Azerbaijan – 297 points
- North Macedonia – 295 points
- Australia – 285 points
- Iceland – 234 points
- Czech Republic – 157 points
- Denmark – 120 points
- Slovenia – 105 points
- France – 105 points
- Cyprus – 101 points
- Malta – 95 points
- Serbia – 92 points
- Albania – 90 points
- Estonia – 86 points
- San Marino – 81 points
- Greece – 71 points
- Spain – 60 points
- Israel – 47 points
- Germany – 32 points
- Belarus – 31 points
- United Kingdom – 16 points
Who is Duncan Laurence?
Duncan Laurence is originally from Spijkenisse, born in 1994. This year he graduated from the Rock Academy in Tilburg where he studied to become a singer-songwriter as well as music producer. He has also spent time previously in London and Stockholm writing music. He was internally selected in January by the Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS to represent the nation in the 2019 contest.
Duncan will be performing the song “Arcade” in Tel Aviv, Israel. The song was written two years before it was selected to represent the Netherlands. He is currently the favourite to win this years contest.
The Netherlands debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956 and has gone on to compete in all bar four contests. To date the Netherlands has won the contest on four occasions the latest being in 1975. The Netherlands struggled in the contest from 2000 onwards, between 2004 and 2013 the country only qualified twice for the final. The countries best result since 1975 occurred in 2014 when The Common Linnets finished 2nd in Copenhagen with a total of 238 points, 52 points behind Austria.
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