{"id":586678,"date":"2026-04-05T08:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586678\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:26:12","slug":"australia-receives-points-from-romania-in-the-ogae-poll-for-eurovision-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586678\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia receives points from Romania in the OGAE Poll for Eurovision 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Australia has picked up more points in the OGAE Poll for Eurovision 2026. <\/p>\n

Each year the OGAE Eurovision fan clubs from across the world vote for their favourite Eurovision songs ahead of the Contest.<\/p>\n

The clubs are part of Organisation G\u00e9n\u00e9rale des Amateurs de l’Eurovision\u00a0(OGAE) International who each year conduct a pre-Eurovision Song Contest poll. Every national club casts a vote from all entries participating, using the same scoring system as the one at Eurovision.<\/p>\n

Romania is the second club to reveal their points with Delta Goodrem’s Eclipse for Australia picking up 6 points for finishing 5th in the poll.<\/p>\n

Romania’s votes were as follows:<\/p>\n

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Current OGAE Poll 2026 tally <\/p>\n

After two countries have voted, the current standings as of 5 April 2026 are:<\/p>\n

Finland \u2013 22 points<\/p>\n

Greece \u2013 18 points<\/p>\n

Denmark \u2013 15 points<\/p>\n

Cyprus \u2013 15 points<\/p>\n

Australia \u2013 13 points<\/p>\n

Sweden \u2013 12 points<\/p>\n

Albania \u2013 5 points<\/p>\n

Italy \u2013 5 points<\/p>\n

Bulgaria \u2013 4 points<\/p>\n

Malta \u2013 3 points<\/p>\n

Montenegro \u2013 2 points<\/p>\n

Moldova \u2013 1 point<\/p>\n

Israel \u2013 1 point<\/p>\n

How does the OGAE poll work?<\/p>\n

Within each club, the act that receives the most votes gets 12 points, the second most receives 10 points, and then 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 point for the remaining acts in descending order of popularity. Just like at Eurovision, OGAE clubs cannot vote for their own country.<\/p>\n

On six occasions, the OGAE poll has successfully predicted the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, with a further four OGAE poll winners coming in second or third place.<\/p>\n

Previous Eurovision winners that were predicted by the OGAE poll are –<\/p>\n

For continued updates on all the Eurovision Song Contest news follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Bluesky Threads and TikTok. All links at: https:\/\/linktr.ee\/aussievisionnet<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia has picked up more points in the OGAE Poll for Eurovision 2026. Each year the OGAE Eurovision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-586678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}