Whose positions on the Eurovision leaderboard changed after that voting error?

The Eurovision Song Contest continues to deliver the drama, days after the final took place.

The leaderboard has been given a revamp after the European Broadcasting Union admitted a ‘human error’ messed up the jury votes in the grand final, following the disqualification of the Belarusian jury.

A statement read: ‘The Belarusian jury was dismissed following the reveal of their votes from the first Semi-Final which is contrary to the rules of the Eurovision Song Contest. In order to comply with the Contest’s voting regulations, the EBU worked with its voting partner digame to create a substitute aggregated result (calculated based on the results of other countries with similar voting records), which was approved by voting monitor Ernst & Young, to determine the Belarusian jury votes for the Grand Final.

‘The EBU can confirm, following standard review practices, we have discovered that due to a human error an incorrect aggregated result was used. This had no impact on the calculation of points derived from televoting across the 41 participating countries and the overall winner and Top 4 songs of the Contest remain unchanged.

‘To respect both the artists and EBU Members which took part, we wish to correct the final results in accordance with the rules. The correct jury points have now been added to the scoreboard and the revised totals for each participating broadcaster, and their country, have been published on eurovision.tv.

‘The EBU and its partners digame and Ernst & Young deeply regret that this error was not identified earlier and will review the processes and controls in place to prevent this from happening again.’

So what does that mean for the leaderboard?

Well, the top four remains unchanged – in fact, all four gained even more points, with winner Duncan Laurence adding six points to his tally to bring it to 498 points.

Italy, Russia and Switzerland kept their second, third and fourth place spots – but then things got interesting.

Sweden and Norway swapped places, with John Lundvik taking the fifth spot away from KEiiNO, who are now in sixth place.

And things improved for North Macedonia, as not only did they rise from 8th to 7th place, they won the jury vote, taking the win away from Sweden.

Sadly, the United Kingdom’s result just got worse – Michael Rice’s Bigger Than Us remained in last place, but lost five points, going from 16 to 11.

Next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be held in The Netherlands, with San Marino already confirming their return.

It remains to be seen if Iceland will return, as the EBU confirmed they would face consequences after Hatari held up Palestinian flags during the voting in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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