Eurovision Song Contest 2026: Voting

This year, voting in the UK for the Eurovision Song Contest is going online ONLY via Eurovision’s official website esc.vote.

This voting platform, esc.vote, is centrally managed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), who oversee the entire contest. All rules, systems, and voting technology are provided and administered by the EBU to ensure a consistent and secure voting process across all voting countries. You can find more information here.

Voting in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 - Terms

Eurovision Song Contest 2026

1. Viewers will be invited to vote for their favourite act(s) in Semi-Final 2 and the Grand Final.
2. Voting is online only via esc.vote or the Eurovision Song Contest App and users will be limited to 10 votes per payment method. The website and app are distributed by a third party, and the BBC does not control nor is responsible for any app content or functionality.
3. Please note, you cannot vote by email, text/SMS or telephone.
4. UK-based viewers may only vote in the Semi-Final broadcast on Thursday 14th May 2026 and the Grand Final on Saturday 16th May 2026.

Voting in the Semi-Final

1. Although there are two semi-finals, UK viewers can only vote in the second Semi-Final on 14th May 2026. The five countries who are automatically through to the Grand Final (UK, France, Germany, Italy and Austria as last year’s winners) are featured across the two semi-finals but the public will not be able to vote for them. The Jury will watch and cast their votes based on the semi-final Dress Rehearsal, which will take place in the evening of Wednesday 13 May 2026.
2. The scoring for the semi-finals will be the same as the Grand Final, scores of the songs shall be calculated on the basis of both the results of the national juries appointed and the set of points awarded which are the points from the public televote (see below) from each of the Eurovision countries plus the points from the Rest of the World (RoW) public vote that counts as one additional country.
3. The ten highest scoring acts in each Semi-Final, once all the points have been combined, will go through to the Grand Final and are revealed in no particular order.
4. The highest scoring acts in each Semi-Final shall be the songs which have obtained the highest number of points from the combined calculation of the total points from all of the televoting results, including RoW, and the total points awarded from all of the national juries' from all participating countries. Therefore, the ratio in the Semi-Finals is 50.7% Audience voting, 49.3% Jury voting.

Voting in the Grand Final

1. In the Grand Final, UK-based voters may NOT vote for the UK act. Any votes from the UK for the UK act will not count.
2. In the Grand Final, the final scores of the songs shall be calculated on the basis of both the results of the public televoting and the results of the national juries appointed. For the national jury vote of each country, the score of each song in each country shall be determined as follows: 12 points shall be allocated to the song having obtained the best rank from the national jury; 10 points to the song having obtained the second-best rank from the national jury, 8 points to the song having obtained the third-best rank from the national jury, 7 points to the next, and so on down to 1 point for the song having obtained the tenth-best rank from the national jury. In calculating the combined ranks from each jury member ranking, an exponential weight model is used. For more information please see the Eurovision website.
3. Separately, the points awarded from the public vote from each country for each song shall be determined as follows: an additional 12 points shall be allocated to the song having obtained the highest number of votes from the UK televoting; 10 points to the song having obtained the second-highest number of votes from the UK televoting, 8 points to the song having obtained the third-highest number of votes from the UK televoting, 7 points to the next, and so on down to 1 point for the song having obtained the tenth-highest number of votes from the UK televoting. The jury and public televote points will be presented separately. The Audience in each participating country will award a total of 58 points (1 – 8, 10 and 12). The Audience voting online from non-participating countries (Rest of The World) will also award a total of 58 points (1 – 8, 10 and 12). The Jury in each of the 37 participating countries will also award a total of 58 points (1 – 8, 10 and 12). Each Jury will watch and cast their votes based on Dress Rehearsal 2, which will take place in the evening of Friday 15 May 2026.
4. The winner of the Grand Final shall be the song which has obtained the highest number of points from the combined calculation of the total points from all of the televoting results, including RoW, and the total points awarded from all of the national juries' from all participating countries. Therefore, the ratio in the final is 50.7% Audience voting, 49.3% Jury voting.

National Jury

1. Each national jury will consist of 7 members including a chairperson. The members shall be professionals within the music industry (including music journalists and critics, music teachers, creative professionals such as choreographers and stage directors and experienced music industry figures) and nationals of the relevant country. At least two jurors will be aged 18-25.
2. The members of each national jury will watch the live transmission of the 2nd dress rehearsal for both the Grand Final and the Semi Final in which that country is voting. After the transmission they will vote in accordance with the European Broadcasting Union Rules.

Ties

1. In the event of a tie, the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 Rules prescribe the following:

15.1. For resolving a tie in the national jury ranking – the system will look at the individual results of the jury members and the overall rank will be determined by firstly looking at these individual ranks and then if necessary the age of the jury members.

15.2. For resolving a tie in a country’s televote – the result of that country’s national jury will determine the order; the song having obtained the best rank of the national jury will be ranked highest.

15.3. For resolving a tie due to two songs receiving the same number of points from all national juries - the winner in that tie shall be the song that obtained points from the highest number of national juries. If the tied songs have received points from the same number of juries, the highest number of 12-point scores from all juries shall be decisive. If the winner still cannot be determined by this procedure, the number of times ten points have been awarded shall be the deciding factor. If necessary, this method shall continue until account has been taken of the number of times one point has been awarded. In the very unlikely case that after applying the above procedure there is still a tie, the tie shall be resolved by giving precedence to the country which was earlier in the running order for the respective show in question.

15.4. The same process described above applies for any two songs receiving the same number of points from all national audiences in the televote.

15.5. For resolving a tie due to two songs receiving the same number of votes from the RoW Audience - this shall be resolved by using an aggregated result which shall be automatically calculated on the basis of the results of National Juries of a pre-selected group of countries.

15.6. Solving a tie in the combined Jury and Audience result due to two or more songs having received the same number of points - the winner shall be the song which has obtained the highest rank from all the national audiences and the RoW voting.

15.7. More information can be found in the published Rules on the Eurovision website.

Other Rules

1. The maximum number of times you can vote is 10 per payment method.
2. Voters must obtain permission from the bill payer before voting. Voters aged 16 and under should obtain parent/guardian consent before voting. Votes are only open to individuals as consumers from the UK, and not to any agencies, businesses and/or companies.
3. Make sure you select only the song(s) you wish to vote for.
4. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify votes if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that there has been any deliberate attempt to rig or manipulate the voting.
5. The BBC, its sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any telephone network or line, system, server, provider or otherwise which may result in any vote not being properly registered or recorded.
6. The BBC reserves the right to cancel or suspend voting at any time if it considers it has reasonable cause to do so or if there is a technical difficulty of any kind.
7. For purpose of verifying any claim for refunds (where offered) or investigating possible voting irregularities, the BBC may need to request the network operator to disclose the payment details. that you used to vote. If you do not agree to this, you should not vote.
8. Where such investigations are required, the BBC will only ever use your payment details for the purposes of processing refunds or investigating possible voting irregularities and will not publish or provide it to anyone without permission, except where required for enforcement of these terms. You can read more about the BBC Privacy Policy at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy
9. In the unlikely event of a failure in the online votes for technical or similar reasons, a full explanation of how the Contest organisers allocate points in this situation will be made available on the BBC website and Eurovision social media channels after the show.
10. The Eurovision Song Contest 2026 is produced under the auspices of the European Broadcasting Union. The rules are issued by the European Broadcasting Union and are common across all participating countries. More details can be found on the EBU's website.
11. The voting in this programme accords with the BBC's Code of Conduct for Competitions and Voting, details of which can be found on the BBC’s Standards and Guidelines website.
12. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of England and Wales.