Eurovision 2026 Jury vs Televote: Bulgaria Wins Both — First Time Since 2017

TL;DR: Bulgaria won the Eurovision 2026 Grand Final with 204 jury points and 312 televote points — number one in both lanes, and the first country to pull off the double since Portugal 2017. The bigger story behind the result is the splits: France (4th in the jury, 18th in the televote), Czechia, and Poland glittered with the juries and disappeared with the public; Romania did the opposite and climbed onto the podium on the back of the televote. Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom all finished on zero televote points. Here's the full breakdown.

The full table: 25 finalists, jury vs televote

Jury top 10

Televote top 10

Five countries appear in both top 10s (Bulgaria, Israel, Italy, Finland, Australia). Everyone else is a single-lane act — strong with one half of the vote, ignored by the other.

The biggest splits: jury yes, public no

France is the textbook case. *Regarde !* was the professional jury's 4th favourite — clean vocal, polished staging — and almost invisible to the public. 14 televote points against 144 from the jury: the only reason Monroe finished 11th instead of 16th-17th.

Czechia, Poland, and Malta repeat the same pattern: technically "correct" entries that don't trigger real emotion in the room.

The splits the other way: public yes, jury no

Romania is the hidden story of the night. *Choke Me* was the professional jury's 13th pick — without the televote, a mid-table finish. But the European public voted it the second-best song of the final, vaulting Romania onto the podium (3rd) and tying its best-ever finishes from 2005 and 2010.

Moldova and Ukraine replay the classic Eastern European pattern: tough juries, generous diaspora and neighbours. The Eurovision 2026 recap already flagged these two as the odds market's "positive surprises" — this is exactly why.

The three countries on zero from the public

Three entries finished on 0 televote points:

The UK's result is the harshest of the night: Look Mum No Computer's *Eins, Zwei, Drei* finishes last by a wide margin. That's the fourth time in five years the UK has ended up in the bottom five.

Why the favourite lost: Finland between two stools

Finland closed the market at 2.02 (49.5% implied) — the clearest pre-final favourite of any cycle since Sweden in 2023. They finished 6th. The split tells you why:

Not a flop — solid in both lanes. The problem: winning as a 2.02 favourite requires being #1 or very close in at least one lane. Bulgaria was #1 in both. Finland was "good" in both, and *good* doesn't beat *great*.

It's exactly the pattern flagged before: heavy favourites that lose are usually too dependent on a single lane. *Liekinheitin* didn't collapse anywhere — it just didn't carry the room. More context on favourite-flops in Eurovision 2026 odds history.

Why Bulgaria's win is different

The last jury-plus-televote double win was Portugal 2017 with Salvador Sobral's *Amar pelos dois*. Nine years without the same song dominating both lanes.

What separates Bulgaria's win from the recent Switzerland 2024 / Austria 2025 results:

That's why 173 points separate Bulgaria from Israel. Margins of that size only open up when the same song locks down both lanes simultaneously.

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