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The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest is selected by a positional voting system. The most recent system was implemented in the 2023 contest. Each participating country is awarded two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points, based on their ten favourite songs. One set of picks from their professional jury, and the other from televoting.
Voting system: Each country awards one set in the semi-finals, and two sets in the final, of 12, 10, 8–1 points to ten songs. In all three shows, online votes from viewers in non-participating countries are aggregated and awarded as one set of points. Winning song Switzerland "The Code" 2023 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 2025
A new voting system was implemented at this contest, with each country now giving 3, 2 and 1 points to the top three songs as determined by the combined votes of the assembled jury. [8] [105] France's Isabelle Aubret was crowned the winner with "Un premier amour", giving France its third victory in five years. [91]
The following tables list the entries which have been performed at the contest since the introduction of semi-finals in 2004. Entries are listed by order of their first performance in the contest; entry numbers provide a cumulative total of all songs performed at the contest throughout its history, and a second cumulative total outlines the total entries for each country.
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Before 'American Idol,' 'The X Factor,' 'America's Got Talent' and 'The Voice' — before 'Star Search,' even — there was Eurovision, one of the most-watched TV broadcasts since 1956.
Since 2023, the voting system used to determine the results of the contest has worked on the basis of positional voting. [ 126 ] [ 127 ] Each country awards 1–8, 10 and 12 points to the ten favourite songs as voted for by that country's general public or assembled jury, with the most preferred song receiving 12 points.
Changes to the voting system, including a steady growth in the number of countries participating and voting, means that the points earned are not comparable across the decades. Portugal's Salvador Sobral holds the record of the highest number of points in the contest's history, earning 758 with the song "Amar pelos dois".