The Eurovision Song Contest has been on again (strangely, Australia is now part of Europe). On the whole, I didn’t think much of the songs this year, although there were a few gems (like the French entry).
This (revised) chart shows those tele-votes which were surprisingly high, given the total scores (country colours indicate total scores, with grey for non-finalists). Arrows reflect high tele-votes (in a relative sense). Red arrows reflect particularly high tele-votes (in a relative sense), including:
- Austria, Croatia, North Macedonia (NM), Slovenia, and Switzerland ⟶ Serbia (Balkan cluster)
- North Macedonia (NM) and Italy ⟶ Albania (ditto)
- Cyprus ⟶ Greece ⟶ Cyprus (as usual)
- Netherlands ⟶ Greece (the Greek singer resides in the Netherlands)
- Georgia ⟶ Greece
- Russia ⟶ Cyprus
- Moldova ⟶ Russia (former USSR)
- Czech Republic and Romania ⟶ Moldova
- Latvia, Germany, Norway, UK, and Ireland ⟶ Lithuania
- Denmark and Iceland ⟶ Sweden (Nordic cluster)
- Sweden, Iceland, and Estonia ⟶ Finland (ditto)
- Malta ⟶ Norway
- Azerbaijan ⟶ Israel
Regional sentiment and expatriate voting still play a part, I see. Here is the same network overlaid on a map:
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