The UK's Jury and Televote results revealed
The BBC today releases the details of how both the UK Professional Jury and the UK Televoters cast their votes in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Here's the results of the 5-strong Jury of music industry professionals:
UK JURY VOTE
12 Points - Germany
10 Points - Iceland
8 Points - Norway
7 Points - Malta
6 Points - Turkey
5 Points - Ukraine
4 Points - France
3 Points - Bosnia & Herzegovina
2 Points - Armenia
1 Point - Azerbaijan
And now here's how the UK public cast their votes by telephone:
UK PUBLIC TELEVOTE
12 Points - Turkey
10 Points - Greece
8 Points - Lithuania
7 Points - Norway
6 Points - Malta
5 Points - Iceland
4 Points - Azerbaijan
3 Points - Denmark
2 Points - Germany
1 Point - Portugal
So the results of these two votes were then added together, to come up with a final list of the most popular countries in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.
COMBINED JURY AND TELEVOTE
18 Points - Turkey
15 Points - Norway*
15 Points - Iceland
14 Points - Germany
13 Points - Malta
10 Points - Greece
8 Points - Lithuania
5 Points - Azerbaijan*
5 Points - Ukraine
4 Points - France
3 Points - Denmark
3 Points - Bosnia & Herzegovina
2 Points - Armenia
1 Point - Portugal
*Where there were two countries on the same score, the act with the higher public phone vote is judged to have been the winner.
Therefore, converting these points into the traditional Eurovision votes, the final Combined Results (as previously announced during the broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest) were as follows:
FINAL VOTES FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM
Turkey - 12 Points
Norway - 10 Points
Iceland - 8 Points
Germany - 7 Points
Malta - 6 Points
Greece - 5 Points
Lithuania - 4 Points
Azerbaijan - 3 Points
Ukraine - 2 Points
France - 1 Point