Eurovision 2026: Grand Final replay – Who did the Australian public like?

Tonight SBS aired the primetime replay of the Grand Final of Eurovision 2026 in Vienna.

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 the SBS Eurovision Voting Page accessed by scanning a QR code shown during each performance.

Viewers could rate each song by giving a thumbs up or thumbs down with SBS tallying the results and displaying them at the end of each performance.

Who did Australia love most?

Not surprisingly, Australia's winner of Eurovision 2026 was Australia with 96% of voters loving Delta Goodrem's Eclipse!

But we all know that at Eurovision you can't vote for your own country, so our real winner was Bulgaria with 86% of voters loving Dara's Bangaranga!

This was an 18% improvement in the like votes Bulgaria received in the prime time broadcast of Semi Final 2, no doubt helped by the song's win in Vienna. In Friday night's SBS viewer poll during the Semi-Final 2 replay, Bulgaria was only the 5th most popular song with the Australian public.

In fact, Australians loved 20 of the 25 songs performed in the Grand Final with only five scoring under 50% with viewers.

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

1. Australia - 96% (9)

2. Bulgaria - 86% (1)

3. Finland - 83% (8)

4. Moldova - 82% (4)

=5. Denmark - 75% (11)

=5. Norway - 75% (15)

7. Croatia - 73% (12)

8. France - 70% (18)

=9. Romania - 69% (2)

=9. Greece - 69% (6)

11. Sweden - 68% (17)

12. Italy - 65% (7)

13. Belgium - 63% (24)

14. Poland - 60% (16)

=15. Ukraine - 58% (5)

=15. Malta - 58% (21)

=15. Austria - 58% (22%)

18. Serbia - 55% (13)

19. Cyprus - 53% (14)

20. Czechia - 50% (20)

21. Albania - 49% (10)

22. Germany - 48% (23)

23. United Kingdom - 43% (25)

24. Lithuania - 37% (19)

25. Israel - 31% (3)

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 35 participating countries and the Rest of the World.

SBS viewers only had six countries in the Top 10 that also came top 10 in the real televote. These were Australia, Bulgaria, Finland, Moldova, Romania and Greece.

When we look at Israel, Albania, Ukraine and Italy, Australians were not as keen on these songs as the rest of the world. Israel came third in the real televote yet came last with SBS viewers. Albania was 21st in the SBS poll yet managed to finish 10th with the Eurovision televote. Other discrepancies occurred with Ukraine and Italy who finished 5th and 7th in the public vote at Eurovision. Italy was 12th with Australian viewers and Ukraine finished in =15th place.

Australian Televote at Eurovision

Bulgaria - 12 points

Finland - 10 points

Greece - 8 points

Croatia - 7 points

Romania - 6 points

Moldova- 5 points

Malta - 4 points

Denmark - 3 points

Norway - 2 points

France - 1 point

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

Nine of the countries the Australian televote gave points to all finished in the Top 10 with SBS viewers. The exception was Malta who received 4 points from the Australian televote but only finished =15th with SBS viewers.

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