Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra remain the record-holders for highest single-entry televote at a Eurovision Grand Final. Performing Stefania at Turin 2022 — two months and ten days after Russia's invasion of their country — they collected 439 points from the public vote alone. That figure exceeded the entire combined jury-plus-televote score of every country except the eventual UK runner-up.
What 439 means in context. The maximum possible televote score in 2022 was 480 (40 voting blocs × 12). Kalush received 91.5% of the available televote ceiling — the highest share any entry has captured under the modern split-vote system. They received 12 points from 28 of 40 televote pools including the Rest-of-the-World aggregate, dropped 10 to a further 7, and received zero from only 5 countries (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Czechia).
The non-sympathy comparison. Käärijä's 376 in 2023 (Finland, Cha Cha Cha) is the highest non-wartime televote of the modern era and the only other entry to break 350. Käärijä lost the contest by 57 points overall because Sweden's Loreen swept the jury vote 340-150. That 2023 jury-vs-televote split — where the public's runaway favourite finished second behind a jury-preferred winner — generated the loudest backlash against the 50/50 system in its 10-year history and contributed to the 2026 voting reform that returned juries to the semi-finals.
Bulgaria 2026's televote in proportion. DARA's 312 televote points at Vienna 2026 is the seventh-highest in the era, and the only one of the top-10 that came on a 35-bloc field (the others were on 38–42 blocs). On the 2022 ceiling Bulgaria would have scored approximately 350 — comparable to Käärijä but still well shy of Kalush's 439.
Israel's record absence from the top of the televote leaderboard. Israel finished third in the 2026 televote with 220 points — the highest televote position for a non-winner from a Big-Vote-Lockout country in over a decade. Israel was given 12 televote points by six separate countries in the Grand Final (Azerbaijan, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, France, Finland). Despite this, Israel received only one jury 12 (from Azerbaijan) — the most extreme jury-vs-televote split of any Grand Final top-3 finisher in the 50/50 era.