Eurovision 2025: Grand Final replay – Who did the Australian public like?

Tonight SBS aired the primetime replay of the Grand Final of Eurovision 2025 in Basel.

Just as in Friday and Saturday night's airing of Semi-Finals 1 and 2, Australians could vote for their favourite songs from the Grand Final via a SBS Eurovision WhatsApp chat.

Viewers could send either #YES or #NO followed by the country name to the dedicated chat, with the SBS Eurovision Rater tallying the results and displaying them at the end of each performance. Viewers were restricted to one vote per country.

Who did Australia love most?

Australia's winner this evening was Sweden with 97% of viewers loving the song!

Sweden also won Friday night's SBS viewer poll during the Semi-Final 1 replay with 95% of voters loving KAJ's Bara Bada Bastu!

In fact, Australians loved 22 of the 26 songs performed in the Grand Final with only four scoring under 50% with viewers.

Full Results of tonight's SBS vote (real televote result in brackets)

1. 97% - Sweden (3)

2. 93% - Iceland (17)

3. 90% - Estonia (2)

4. 89% - Germany (11)

5. 88% - Luxembourg (19)

=6. 82% - Austria (4)

=6. 82% - Norway (12)

8. 80% - Netherlands (15)

=9. 78% - Albania (5)

=9. 78% - Finland (9)

=9. 78% - Latvia (16)

12. 77% - Spain (22)

13. 74% - Denmark (24)

14. 71% - Malta (23)

15. 70% - Switzerland (=25)

16. 68% - San Marino (20)

17. 65% - France (14)

18. 62% - Italy (10)

=19. 61% - Poland (7)

=19. 61% - Greece (8)

21. 51% - Ukraine (6)

22. 50% - United Kingdom (=25)

23. 48% - Armenia (18)

24. 44% - Portugal (21)

25. 33% - Lithuania (13)

26. 23% - Israel (1)

How accurate were the Australian viewers?

Looking at the full results of tonight's SBS viewer vote we can see that the results differed quite significantly from the real televote results of the 37 participating countries and the Rest of the World.

SBS viewers only had five countries in the Top 10 that also came top 10 in the real televote. These were Sweden, Estonia, Austria, Albania and Finland.

When we look at Israel, Ukraine, Poland, Greece and Italy, Australians were not as keen on these songs as the rest of the world. Israel won the real televote yet came last with SBS viewers. Ukraine was 21st in the SBS poll yet managed to finish 6th with the Eurovision televote. Other discrepancies occurred with Poland, Greece and Italy who finished 7th, 8th and 10th in the public vote at Eurovision. Poland and Greece were =19th with Australian viewers and Italy finished in 18th place.

Australian Televote at Eurovision

Israel - 12 points

Finland - 10 points

Sweden - 8 points

Greece - 7 points

Estonia - 6 points

Malta- 5 points

Albania - 4 points

Austria - 3 points

Latvia - 2 points

Poland - 1 point

When we compare the SBS voters results to the real Australian televote, we see a similar correlation.

Sweden, Estonia, Austria, Albania, Finland and Latvia all finished in the Top 10 with SBS viewers and also received points from the Australian televoters during this morning's vote.

However there were also some major differences. The SBS viewers preferred Iceland, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway and Netherlands whilst the real Australian televoters gave their remaining points to Israel, Greece, Malta and Poland.

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