Austria's audience loves Germany: 12 points for the Viennese duo!

Austria's audience loves Germany: 12 points for the Viennese duo!

The 69th Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2025, which took place in Basel, St. Jakobshalle from May 13th to 17th, caused a lot of excitement and curious results. After the final, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) published the detailed results of the audience voting. It was noteworthy that the Austrian contribution by JJ did not get 12 points from the audience once, while the Austrian jury of experts awarded the maximum score to Finland.

As part of the competition, the votes from the jury and the audience each received a weighting of 50 percent. The Austrian audience rewarded the Vienna Duo Abor & Tynna from Germany with the full score of 12, followed by Italy with 10 points and Estonia with 8 points.

Details about the audience voting

The results of the vote of the Austrian public look as follows:

• 12 points: Germany
• 10 points: Italy
• 8 points: Estonia
• 7 points: Israel
• 6 points: Albania
• 5 points: Poland
• 4 points: Sweden
• 3 points: Netherlands
• 2 points: Finland
• 1 point: Iceland

In contrast, the Austrian jury awarded the 12 points to Finland and placed Malta and Denmark in places two and three.

the jury and its evaluation

The ESC's assessment mechanisms are clearly structured: a jury of five experts per participant country who have to be citizens of the respective country, evaluates the contributions. This ensures that professional opinions flow into the allocation of the points. The rules for the competition are determined by the EBU, including the provisions, that the own country must not be coordinated and the contribution must be an original song that may not have achieved any commercial success beforehand.

Switzerland will be represented by Zoë Më this year with the song "Voyage". The selective process of selection of contributions comprised 431 songs submitted, from which the final contribution was selected by a combination of national and international jury and a jury of experts. The selection process was carried out in cooperation with YouGov Switzerland.

totaling 37 countries took part in the ESC 2025, one of the most traditionally exciting music events in Europe. Spectators from non-participating countries were able to vote on a paid online voting, which further increased the range and interest in the competition. The event has been running since its foundation in 1956 and the ESC has developed into a cultural phenomenon over the years