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Summary

  • Eurovision favourites Ukraine win after a resounding lead from the public vote

  • Their folk-rap group Kalush Orchestra asks for help for Ukrainian forces in besieged Mariupol, at the end of their song

  • The UK's Sam Ryder comes second in the contest - our highest position in over 20 years

  • Ukraine had been the favourite to win the contest, although the UK was in the lead after the jury vote

  • Some fans have been saying online they wanted to see fewer ballads and more bangers among the 25 entries

  • Switzerland gets zero votes from the public vote, but 78 from the jury

  1. Azerbaijanpublished at 23:51 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    And they are given only three points, that's quite a surprise.

  2. Serbia take the leadpublished at 23:50 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    They get 225, amazing! They are now in the lead!

  3. Switzerlandpublished at 23:49 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    They receive no points! That's harsh.

  4. Belgiumpublished at 23:48 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    Just five points for them.

  5. Polandpublished at 23:48 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    It's 105 points.

  6. Eurovision organisers say there was irregular jury votingpublished at 23:48 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    Eurovision organisers announce there was irregular jury voting from six countries in the second semi-final.

    The European Broadcast Union (EBU) says it calculated a "substitute aggregated result for each country concerned for both the second semi-final and the grand final".

    The EBU adds it "takes any suspected attempts to manipulate the voting at the Eurovision Song Contest extremely seriously and has the right to remove such votes in accordance with the Official Voting Instructions, irrespective of whether or not such votes are likely to influence the results and/or outcome of the voting."

  7. Estoniapublished at 23:48 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    The public give them 98 points.

  8. Armeniapublished at 23:47 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    21 points.

  9. Norwaypublished at 23:47 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    They get 146 points, decent.

  10. Lithuaniapublished at 23:47 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    93 points for them.

  11. Czech Republicpublished at 23:46 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    They were up first - just five points for them from the public.

  12. Moldovapublished at 23:46 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    They get 239 points - wow! Up in third. That was a great tune after all those ballads.

  13. Romaniapublished at 23:45 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    It's 53 points from the public.

  14. Finlandpublished at 23:45 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    They get 26.

  15. Icelandpublished at 23:45 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    10 points.

  16. Francepublished at 23:45 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    They get 8.

  17. Germany avoids nul pointspublished at 23:44 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    They get six.

  18. Public votepublished at 23:44 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    50% of the vote is from the viewers - so here they come, starting with the country with the lowest number of votes from the juries.

  19. We're almost there...published at 23:42 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    The public votes are in. We'll be last to hear how many we got as we're top of the leaderboard... so hang on in there.

  20. Sam speakspublished at 23:41 British Summer Time 14 May 2022

    Sam says "there's so much positivity.. what an experience!"