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Alexander Brock

Eurovision 2019 results leaderboard changes and gets worse for UK after voting blunder

Eurovision bosses have confessed to a voting blunder which makes the final leaderboard even more embarrassing for the UK.

The Eurovision Broadcast Union (EBU) have admitted that a "human error" caused a mistake with the jury results during last weekend's competition.

The Belarussian jury was dismissed after their votes from the first semi-final of the singing contest were revealed, which is against the rules.

For the final, the EBU created an aggregated result "based on the results of other countries with similar voting records".

This was approved by voting monitor Ernst & Young - however, an "incorrect aggregated result" was used.

While the top four remain unchanged, the results have got even more embarrassing for UK contestant Michael Rice, who finished in last place.

The UK dropped five points and now sit on just 11.

What you need to know about Eurovision 2019

Norway have fallen to sixth and have swapped places with neighbours Sweden, while North Macedonia have come top of the jury voting after gaining an extra 10 points.

In a statement on the results of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, the EBU said: "The EBU can confirm, following standard review practices, we have discovered that due to a human error an incorrect aggregated result was used.

"This had no impact on the calculation of points derived from televoting across the 41 participating countries and the overall winner and top four songs of the contest remain unchanged.

"To respect both the artists and EBU Members which took part, we wish to correct the final results in accordance with the rules.

"The correct jury points have now been added to the scoreboard and the revised totals for each participating broadcaster, and their country, have been published on eurovision.tv.

"The EBU and its partners digame and Ernst & Young deeply regret that this error was not identified earlier and will review the processes and controls in place to prevent this from happening again."

Last year's winner was Netta who represented Israel with the song 'Toy' (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

The correct results in full:

  1. Netherlands (498 points)
  2. Italy (472 points)
  3. Russia (370 points)
  4. Switzerland (364 points)
  5. Sweden (334 points)
  6. Norway (331 points)
  7. North Macedonia (305 points)
  8. Azerbaijan (302 points)
  9. Australia (284 points)
  10. Iceland (232 points)
  11. Czech Republic (157 points)
  12. Denmark (120 points)
  13. Cyprus (109 points)
  14. Malta (107 points)
  15. Slovenia (105 points)
  16. France (105 points)
  17. Albania (90 points)
  18. Serbia (89 points)
  19. San Marino (77 points)
  20. Estonia (76 points)
  21. Greece (74 points)
  22. Spain (54 points)
  23. Israel (35 points)
  24. Belarus (31 points)
  25. Germany (24 points)
  26. United Kingdom (11 points)
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