EBU posts Eurovision jury results

The European Broadcasting Union published a standalone video of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 Grand Final jury votes on Saturday, hours after the contest ended in Vienna. The clip, titled “The Jury Results of Eurovision 2026 | Grand Final,” was uploaded to the official Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel on May 16 and presents the full on-air sequence in which national spokespersons deliver their countries’ jury points. The upload adds a separate official record of one of Eurovision’s two voting tracks. Eurovision’s published results pages and event listings show that the 2026 Grand Final took place in Vienna on May 16, with juries and televoters each awarding points under the contest’s voting system. ### What exactly did the EBU post? The video posted on May 16 is not a recap package but the full jury-vote announcement segment from the Grand Final broadcast. (youtube.com) The YouTube description says it contains “the full announcement of the jury vote” from Eurovision 2026’s Grand Final. The official Eurovision YouTube channel, which has millions of subscribers and carries the contest’s live shows and clips, hosted the upload. That places the jury sequence alongside other official Eurovision 2026 videos rather than leaving it only inside the full final broadcast. (eurovisionworld.com) ### How is that different from the public vote? Eurovision’s voting framework for 2026 kept jury scores and public scores as separate components. (youtube.com) The Grand Final results listing says national juries award one set of points and televoters in participating countries, along with online “Rest of the World” voting, award another. That means the jury-results upload shows only one half of the scoreboard story. Fans looking for the public-vote side still need the full results pages or the complete Grand Final results package, which break down the contest beyond the spokesperson sequence shown in the jury clip. (youtube.com) ### Which contest did those votes decide? Eurovision’s official event pages and results listings identify Vienna, Austria, as the host city for the 2026 contest and May 16 as the date of the Grand Final. (eurovisionworld.com) The Grand Final featured 25 countries, according to the event summary. Eurovision World’s event listing, which tracks the official scoreboard, says Bulgaria won the 2026 contest with DARA’s “Bangaranga” on 516 points. That page also lists Austria’s Wiener Stadthalle as the venue and names Österreichischer Rundfunk, or ORF, as host broadcaster. (youtube.com) ### Where can viewers find the detailed country-by-country numbers? Eurovision’s official site maintains “Full Results” pages that let users view split results by event and voter, part of the contest’s long-running publication of detailed voting data. (eurovisionworld.com) Search results from Eurovision’s site describe those pages as showing detailed jury and televoting results by country. The separate jury video and the results database serve different purposes. (eurovisionworld.com) The YouTube upload reproduces the televised reveal, while the official results pages are where users can inspect the country-level split behind the final scoreboard. ### Why does Eurovision publish split voting at all? Eurovision’s official results pages say the contest began publishing detailed split jury and televoting results from 2014 onward “to increase openness.” That language appears in the Eurovision site’s description of its full-results archive. (eurovision.tv) Martin Green, the Eurovision Song Contest director, also wrote in an open letter published by Eurovision in late 2025 about changes to the voting framework ahead of Vienna 2026. (youtube.com) While that letter addressed rules rather than Saturday’s upload itself, it underscored that voting procedures remained a live issue for organizers before this year’s contest. May 16 remains the key date for the 2026 result: the Grand Final in Vienna delivered the winner, and the EBU’s jury-results upload now sits alongside the official results archive for anyone checking how the jury sequence unfolded country by country. (eurovision.tv) (youtube.com) (eurovision.tv)