Of the 25 entries at the Eurovision 2026 Grand Final, three received zero points from the public televote. Belgium (ESSYLA โ Dancing on the Ice), Germany (Sarah Engels โ Fire) and the United Kingdom (Look Mum No Computer โ Eins, Zwei, Drei) all came away with nothing from the public vote in any of the 36 voting blocs (35 competing countries plus the Rest-of-the-World online aggregate).
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What zero televote means in this scoring system
Each of the 36 voting blocs in the Grand Final televote distributes 58 points (12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1). With 36 blocs awarding points, the total televote pool is 36 ร 58 = 2,088 points distributed across the 25 entries. To score zero from this pool, an entry has to finish 11th-or-lower in every single voting bloc. Not 25th โ just below the top 10 every time.
It's a high bar to clear from the bottom: nine other entries scored at least a single public point (the lowest non-zero was Austria with 5 televote points from a single 5-point vote). For three entries to all clear it in the same final, the public vote has to be unusually concentrated. Vienna 2026 saw that: Bulgaria's 312-point top-line and Romania's 232-point runner-up between them absorbed roughly 26% of the entire televote pool.
The three zero-public entries
| Final placement | Country | Artist ยท Song | R/O slot | Jury pts | Televote pts | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21st | ๐ง๐ช Belgium | ESSYLA ยท Dancing on the Ice | 4 | 36 | 0 | 36 |
| 23rd | ๐ฉ๐ช Germany | Sarah Engels ยท Fire | 2 | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| 25th | ๐ฌ๐ง United Kingdom | Look Mum No Computer ยท Eins, Zwei, Drei | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
How Belgium's 21st place happened with 36 jury points and zero public points
Belgium's case is the most structurally interesting. ESSYLA's Dancing on the Ice drew slot 4 โ early in the running order, on a stage immediately after Germany's Fire (also a zero-televote entry) and Israel's Michelle (which went on to finish second overall). Jury support held: 36 points from professional juries is mid-pack rather than catastrophic. Belgian-language entries in Flemish or French have historically had narrow public-vote appeal outside the Belgian diaspora โ and Belgium's televote pattern in the 2020-2025 cycles was already trending towards juror-led results (5 of the last 7 Belgian top-10 finishes were jury-favourites).
Germany ran second in the order โ and got nothing from the public
Germany's slot-2 placement put Sarah Engels on stage moments after the show opened with Denmark. Slot 2 is mathematically the worst running-order position in modern Eurovision: historically only one slot-2 entry has finished in the top 10 since the 50/50 voting system was reformed in 2016. Fire's 12 jury points (mid-low-pack) became 0 televote, leaving Germany with 12 total and 23rd of 25. The slot-2 effect alone doesn't explain the zero televote โ it explains the magnitude.
The United Kingdom's wooden-spoon detail
The UK's 25th of 25 finish (Look Mum No Computer, Eins, Zwei, Drei) earned exactly 1 point โ a single jury vote โ from any pool. The single point came from a 1-point allocation in one national jury's ranking (Wikipedia's detailed table identifies which one; commentary from Liverpool Echo's live blog suggested it came from Romania). The UK is now the only one of the Big-5 with a top-2 finish in 2022 (Sam Ryder, SPACE MAN) to subsequently post two consecutive bottom-3 finishes (25th 2026, 18th 2024 โ Olly Alexander). The BBC's tender to produce UK Eurovision coverage runs through 2028; the broadcaster's editorial approach for 2027 will be a question the UK Eurovision community is already debating.
How the bookmaker market priced these three before the show
| Country | Pre-final UK best outright odds | Pre-final UK best Top-10 odds | Actual finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ง๐ช Belgium | 501.00 (Unibet) | not consistently quoted | 21st |
| ๐ฉ๐ช Germany | 501.00 (Unibet) | not consistently quoted | 23rd |
| ๐ฌ๐ง United Kingdom | 500.00 (Betano) | not consistently quoted | 25th |
All three were 500+ outright. The bookmakers priced their probability of winning correctly โ none were ever going to win. The interesting market mispricing was in the "to finish in the top 10" and "to receive at least one televote point" sub-markets, where Belgium especially was priced at a meaningful implied probability of a top-15 finish (โ25% across the books) which proved over-generous.
What the data says about how the public vote concentrated in 2026
The Vienna 2026 televote spread (variance of points awarded across the 25 entries) was elevated relative to the 2018-2025 average. Bulgaria received 312 of the 2,088 available points โ 14.9% of the total. The 2018-2024 average top-televote share was around 10.5%. When the top of the public vote concentrates this aggressively, the tail of the distribution thins out โ entries that would normally pick up a single 2-point allocation from one or two voting blocs end up with nothing. The 2026 Grand Final was, by this measure, the most televote-concentrated Eurovision since the 50/50 reform.
Related
- Full Grand Final scoreboard with jury + televote splits
- Grand Final recap
- The six countries where jury and televote most strongly disagreed
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