SBS Eurovision <\/a>Voting Page\u00a0accessed by scanning a QR code shown during each performance.<\/p>\nViewers could rate each song by giving a thumbs up or thumbs down with SBS tallying the results and displaying them at the end of each performance.<\/p>\n
Who did Australia love most? <\/p>\n
Not surprisingly, Australia’s winner of Eurovision 2026 was Australia with 96%\u00a0of voters loving Delta Goodrem’s Eclipse!<\/p>\n
But we all know that at Eurovision you can’t vote for your own country, so our real winner was Bulgaria with 86% of voters loving Dara’s Bangaranga!<\/p>\n
In fact, Australians loved 20 of the 25 songs performed in the Grand Final with only five scoring under 50% with viewers.<\/p>\n
Full Results of tonight’s SBS vote (real televote result in brackets)<\/p>\n
23.\tUnited Kingdom – 43% (25)<\/p>\n
How accurate were the Australian viewers?<\/p>\n
Looking at the full results of tonight’s SBS viewer vote we can see that the results differed quite significantly from the real televote results of the 35 participating countries and the Rest of the World.<\/p>\n
SBS viewers only had six countries in the Top 10 that also came top 10 in the real televote. These were Australia, Bulgaria, Finland, Moldova, Romania and Greece.<\/p>\n
When we look at Israel, Albania, Ukraine and Italy, Australians were not as keen on these songs as the rest of the world. Israel came third in the real televote yet came last with SBS viewers. Albania was 21st in the SBS poll yet managed to finish 10th with the Eurovision televote. Other discrepancies occurred with Ukraine and Italy who finished 5th and 7th in the public vote at Eurovision. Italy was 12th with Australian viewers and Ukraine finished in =15th place.<\/p>\n
Australian Televote at Eurovision<\/p>\n
When we compare the SBS voters results to the real Australian televote, we see a very high correlation.<\/p>\n
Nine of the countries the Australian televote gave points to all finished in the Top 10 with SBS viewers. The exception was Malta who received 4 points from the Australian televote but only finished =15th with SBS viewers.<\/p>\n
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