{"id":431376,"date":"2026-02-18T01:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431376\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:09:11","slug":"%f0%9f%87%b1%f0%9f%87%b9-lithuania-voting-irregularities-triggered-recount-in-eurovizija-lt-heat-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431376\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf9 Lithuania: Voting Irregularities Triggered Recount in Eurovizija.LT Heat Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LRT has confirmed that a delay in announcing the results of Heat Four of Eurovizija.lt was triggered by a recount. <\/p>\n<p>In accordance with the rules of the Lithuanian national selection, a recount of the televotes was triggered after voting irregularities were identified in the latest Heat of Eurovizija.LT. LRT has not commented on the irregularities identified but explained that the recount took a little longer than normal. This resulted in an extended advert break being taken between the pre-recorded performance show and the live announcement of the results.<\/p>\n<p>The results of Heat Four were as follows:<\/p>\n<p>ArtistSongJury PointsTelevote PointsTotal PointsPlacementPatricija Lu\u0161\u010dynska\u201cWorth it\u201d57 (543)125thSelene Ice\u201cNessuno\u201d (Nobody)43 (273)78thLion Ceccah\u201cS\u00f3lo quiero m\u00e1s\u201d (I only want more)812 (4,551)202ndFreya Alley\u201cNo kiss goodbye\u201d34 (378)77thEmi Acidic\u201cu broke me\u201d76 (494)134thMore.\u201cTaip lengvai\u201d (So easily)65 (423)116thN\u00f8ra Blu\u201cHold my own\u201d108 (3,966)183rdSHWR\u201cContact!\u201d1210 (4,535)221st<br \/>\nEurovizija.LT 2026<\/p>\n<p>Eurovizija.LT 2026 began on January 24 and will consist of five heats and a final. Eight artists will compete in each heat, with two qualifying for the final. All of the shows will be hosted by Gabriel\u0117 Martirosian, Egl\u0117 Kernagyt\u0117, and Rimvydas \u010cerniauskas. The winner of Eurovizija.lt 2026 will be selected on February 27 at the Twinsbet Arena in Vilnius. This marks the first time that an arena in Vilnius has hosted the Lithuanian national final.<\/p>\n<p>Several changes to the format were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eurovoix.com\/2025\/08\/18\/lithuania-eurovizija-lt-2026-submissions-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a>\u00a0earlier in August. A wildcard round has been introduced for all acts that place third in their semi-final. The public will be able to vote online once for the act they want to see in the final, and the act with the highest number of votes will secure a spot in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the superfinal has been scrapped. Instead, Lithuania\u2019s Eurovision 2026 representative will be chosen in a single round, combining jury and public votes. For the first time, online voting will be used during all live shows, while telephone voting has been removed.<\/p>\n<p>Katarsis represented Lithuania at Eurovision 2025 with \u201cTavo akys\u201d. They finished 16th in the final with 96 points, which included 12 points from the Ukrainian public vote.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/naujienos\/muzika\/680\/2838235\/paaiskejo-dar-du-eurovizija-lt-finalininkai-geriausiai-sekesi-grupei-shwr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LRT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994. However, their debut appearance saw Lithuania finish in last place with nul points. Lithuania didn\u2019t return to the contest until 1999 when Aiste finished 20th with the song \u201cStrazdas\u201d. Lithuania\u2019s best result came in 2006 when LT United performed \u201cWe Are The Winners\u201d. They finished 6th in the final with a total of 162 points. Lithuania has only finished in the top 10 on two other occasions; in 2016 with \u201cI\u2019ve Been Waiting For This Night\u201d by Donny Montell and in 2021 with \u201cDiscoteque\u201d by The Roop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LRT has confirmed that a delay in announcing the results of Heat Four of Eurovizija.lt was triggered by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,140967,33958,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-431376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-eurovizija-lt-2026","tag-headline","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}