Confused by the voting for the 2022 Eurovision song contest? I was too, so I've checked out what exactly goes on.
There are two sets of votes. These are (a) the votes of the national juries and (b) the public telephone vote.
Voting by national juries.
The juries watch the second dress rehearsal and rank all the entries in order in a single list. The entry that is top of the list gets 12 points, the second on the list gets 10 points and the third on the list gets 8 points. The entries from fourth down are allocated 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points.
These results are announced live at the event by video from each country.
Voting by public
Voting takes place during a specific timed slot after the jury votes are announced. Members of the public vote by telephone. The number of votes for each entry are counted and the entries are then ranked in order from most popular to least popular. The points allocated are the same as for the juries: 12, 10, 8, then 7 down to 1. The points from all participating countries are combined into a single score, so with 40 participating countries, the maximum number of points available is 480 (40 x 12).
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