Eurovision Research Network

Ahead of the publication of jury votes and televotes from all the participating ESC countries on www.eurovision.tv over the coming weeks, some countries will be publishing their own scores ahead of this and Romania is the first to do so, having released the Romanian jury votes for Semi-Final 2 and the Final (http://www NULL.esctoday NULL.com/news/read/15904). Differences between the jury votes and the actual votes are quite interesting here – the Moldovan entry, Run Away, who got 10 points from Romania in the Final, failed to be ranked at all in the Romanian jury vote, suggesting (perhaps not surprisingly) that Moldova must have got the 12 points in the Romanian televote. Differences between the semi final jury vote and final jury vote are also very interesting, given that the same people would have been voting on both contests. Ireland’s Niamh Kavanagh was ranked 3rd (awarded 8 points) in the Romanian jury vote for the semi final but then failed to be ranked at all in the jury vote for the final; this could be down to jury voters having switched their vote for the final to Belgium’s Tom Dice, who was not participating in the same semi final as Ireland/Romania and who was awarded 10 points in the Romanian final jury vote.