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29.5.03
The UK's Eurovision televote

Hot off the BBC presses this afternoon, answering the question, 'just how close did t.A.T.u get to scoring UK points?'
The total number of votes from the UK was 574,515; a massive 67% up from 387,179 last year.
Ireland scored twice as many as the second country, Sweden, giving them 15.08% of the UK votes.
Alf Poier was just 579 votes away from getting our ten points instead of eight. Can we expect lots of comedy songs in next year's Song For Europe?!
Unluckiest country? Probably Greece, a mere 243 votes away from scoring a much-needed point.
The shocks? This must be one of our lowest votes ever for France (but then, it wasn't very good in the end) and a low vote for Latvia, when I thought they'd be in the UK's top three. I just do not understand Latvia's poor showing on Saturday (no points from anyone except Estonia, making them 24th on five points). It was my highlight in the hall, and I've watched the TV performance, and nothing went wrong. It was great. I'm mystified.

My Mum's two favourites were Ireland and Bosnia & Herzegovina, so she picked first and last!

01. (12 points) Ireland 86,653
02. (10 points) Sweden 41,099
03. (8 points) Austria 40,521
04. (7 points) Turkey 37,280
05. (6 points) Norway 31,050
06. (5 points) Belgium 30,631
07. (4 points) Germany 29,706
08. (3 points) Estonia 26,563
09. (2 points) Poland 25,972
10. (1 points) Netherlands 24,269

11. Greece 24,027
12. Russia 23,497
13. Iceland 23,333
14. Romania 17,957
15. Malta 16,763
16. Spain 16,131
17. Cyprus 15,892
18. Latvia 11,344
19. Portugal 10,057
20. Israel 9,415
21. Croatia 8,762
22. France 7,244
23. Ukraine 6,528
24. Slovenia 5,976
25. Bosnia-Heregovina 3,845

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