First of all, this is not all my own work. This belongs to Stelios Katinakis, taken from ESCToday, though I have also added a few of my own analyses. I have decided to publish it on my journal because I think it makes a very important point that is being overlooked in regards to the result of this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

Maybe this will help some poeple understand the voting better!

If we add the results of the 21 western-old countries and compair them to the results of the rest-eastern countries, the patterns are all there!

The table below shows the ranking in the final, then the points + ranking from “west” Europe and then “east” Europe.

Pos. Nation Total West East
1. Serbia 268 128 1st 140 1st
2. Ukraine 235 111 =2nd 124 2nd
3. Russia 207 84 4th 123 3rd
4. Turkey 163 111 =2nd 52 12th
5. Bulgaria 157 80 5th 77 5th
6. Belarus 145 38 15th 107 4th
7. Greece 139 69 8th 70 6th
8. Armenia 138 76 7th 62 9th
9. Hungary 128 79 6th 49 14th
10 Moldova 109 50 12th 59 10th
11. B&H 106 56 10th 50 13th
12. Georgia 97 31 16th 66 7th
13. Romania 84 58 9th 26 17th
14. FYROM 73 8 22th 65 8th
15. Slovenia 66 13 21th 53 11th
16. Latvia 54 24 18th 30 16th
17. Finland 53 41 13th 12 19th
18. Sweden 51 51 11th 0 23th
19. Germany 49 40 14th 9 21th
20. Spain 43 27 17th 16 17th
21. Lithuania 28 16 20th 12 18th
22. France 19 8 22th 11 20th
23. UK 19 19 19th 0 23th
24. Ireland 5 0 24th 5 22th

WEST TOP 10:
1. Serbia
=2. Ukraine
=2. Turkey
4. Russia
5. Bulgaria
6. Hungary
7. Armenia
8. Greece
9. Romania
10. Bosnia & Herzegovina

EAST TOP 10:
1. Serbia
2. Ukraine
3. Russia
4. Belarus
5. Bulgaria
6. Greece
7. Georgia
8. FYR Macedonia
9. Armenia
10. Moldova

The above tables show many different things:

1. Serbia was voted best by ALL sides of the continent!

2. Ireland was voted worst by all sides of the continent too! In fact, Ireland received its only points (5) from Albania, an eastern European country.

3. Most benefited by the west were: Turkey (“east”), Hungary (“east”), Romania (“east”), Finland, Sweden, Germany and the UK.

4. Most benefited by the east were: Belarus, Georgia, FYROM and Slovenia.

5. The UK only got votes from the west, but still they ranked 19th on the western list

6. Looking at the top 10, the total results are closer to the western votes than the eastern! The eastern countries did not choose to have Turkey (4th) or Hungary (9th) in the top 10, even though they are eastern countries.

8. All votes considered, even the westerners did not like the western songs as a whole, and that is the reason more eastern european songs did better.

9. Armenia, the furthest eastern country, received more votes from western Europe than eastern Europe.

10. So perhaps eastern Europe favours eastern Europe, but western Europe favours eastern Europe too!

11. Yes, diaspora plays a part. Mostly benefiting Turkey and Armenia, but the entire result is and cannot be dependent on diaspora.

I hope the above will help some people reconsider blaming the so-called eastern pattern of voting and just enjoy the good songs, no matter where they come from. Even with the neighbourly voting, the overall result is not statistically influenced.