According to the results of the voting of countries, Sweden, Northern Macedonia and the Netherlands were leading - with a margin of just a few points from each other. As a result, everything decided the public vote.
The last place was taken by the United Kingdom with 16 points, on the penultimate - Belarus with 31 points, closes the top three worst Germany with 32 points, which did not receive a single point from the results of the audience voting.
Recall, Sergey Lazarev, having passed to the Grand Final, the favorite of the bookmakers was not - the experts predicted him defeat, giving first place to the representative of Holland, Duncan Lawrence. Also, according to silver and bronze forecasts, performers from Sweden and France were to share, Lazarev, the bookmakers predicted only fourth place.
Video: Speech by Sergey Lazarev with SCREAM song in the Grand Finale Eurovision 2019
The composition of the Eurovision-2019 competitors was really strong - this is how the full list of participants of the Grand Finals looked like:
Russia
Northern Macedonia
Netherlands
Albania
Sweden
Azerbaijan
Denmark
Norway
Switzerland
Malta
Greece
Belorussia
Serbia
Cyprus
Estonia
Czech Republic
Australia
Iceland
San Marino.
Slovenia
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, France (participants from these countries as founder countries were admitted outside the competition)
Israel (last year's winner country)
Not a single competition of such a scale, unfortunately, does not do without scandals, and Eurovision 2019 no exception was - literally at the last moment from the voting was removed Belarus. The Belarusian team of courts violated the rules of the competition, according to which the judges do not have the right to discuss the course of voting and talk about estimates until the very end - that is, until the winner declares. Now Eurovision-2019 spectators know how the team of Judges of Belarus voted in the first semifinal - and because of this, to take part in the voting in the Grand Finale of the Belarusian team banned.
Grand Final Eurovision-2019 in video recordings completely, including the long-awaited speech of Madonna: