ESC Insight posts 16 Eurovision stats

ESC Insight published a May 17 post that turns the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest result into a data story. The article, written by Ben Robertson and Dane Jørgensen, said it drew on voting data released by the European Broadcasting Union for both semi-finals and the grand final. The piece is built around 16 facts and statistics from Vienna 2026, where Bulgaria won the contest on May 16. The official Eurovision results pages and other results databases also show the split jury and televote breakdowns that underpin the analysis. ### What exactly did ESC Insight publish on May 17? Ben Robertson and Dane Jørgensen wrote the ESC Insight article, published on May 17, under the headline “16 Facts and Stats From The 2026 Eurovision Song Contest.” ESC Insight said Robertson, Jørgensen and Kiwi Smith worked on collating the data after the EBU released detailed voting information. (escinsight.com) The ESC Insight post said the release covered “the rankings of every juror and every televote,” giving readers a way to trace how points were distributed across the contest. Eurovision’s official full split-results pages describe the system as country-by-country jury and televoting detail released for transparency. ### Which result anchors the whole set of statistics? (escinsight.com) Bulgaria’s DARA won Eurovision 2026 with “Bangaranga” on 516 points, according to ESC Insight and Eurovisionworld’s results page for the May 16 final in Vienna. ESC Insight said the song took 204 jury points and 312 televote points. Israel finished second on 343 points, ESC Insight said, leaving a winning margin of 173 points. (escinsight.com) The article said that margin was four points larger than the 169-point gap between the top two songs in 2009. ### Why did ESC Insight single out Bulgaria’s voting profile? ESC Insight said Bulgaria was the first Eurovision winner since Portugal in 2017 to top both the jury vote and the televote. (escinsight.com) That made DARA’s win a consensus result by the contest’s two voting blocs, according to the article. The same post said Bulgaria’s 2026 victory was the country’s first Eurovision win. (escinsight.com) ESC Insight compared DARA’s average points per voting group with Kristian Kostov’s 2017 runner-up result, saying “Bangaranga” averaged 7.27 points per voting group against 7.32 for “Beautiful Mess” in a larger field. ### What other country results did the article pull out? (escinsight.com) Romania finished third, matching its best-ever Eurovision placing from 2005 and 2010, ESC Insight said. Australia took fourth place, which the article described as the country’s best result since 2016. Denmark finished seventh, ESC Insight said, its best result since Emmelie de Forest’s 2013 victory. (escinsight.com) The article also highlighted Bulgaria’s semi-final strength, saying 14 of the 18 voting nations in its semi-final gave “Bangaranga” either 10 or 12 points in the televote. ### How does this fit into Eurovision’s broader voting changes? (escinsight.com) The EBU changed Eurovision’s voting rules for 2026 by bringing juries back into the semi-finals and expanding national juries from five members to seven, according to a November 2025 rules update reported by Eurovisionworld. The same update cut the maximum televotes per payment method from 20 to 10. (escinsight.com) Martin Green, director of the Eurovision Song Contest, said in that rules update that the changes were designed to protect the contest’s “neutrality and integrity.” Those rule changes help explain why a post built on juror-level and televote-level detail drew attention immediately after the final. ### Where can readers check the underlying numbers themselves? (eurovisionworld.com) Eurovision’s official full split-results pages let readers inspect detailed jury and televote results country by country, and ESC Insight’s May 17 article points readers to the first patterns it found in those numbers. Eurovisionworld’s 2026 results page also lists the final scoreboard from Vienna, where 35 countries took part and 25 reached the grand final. (eurovisionworld.com) May 17 is the publication date for ESC Insight’s stats roundup, and May 16 is the date of the Vienna grand final it analyzes. The next step for readers is straightforward: the ESC Insight post remains online, and the official Eurovision split-results pages remain available for country-by-country follow-up on the 2026 vote. (escinsight.com) (eurovision.tv)