After watching Eurovision 2014 last night, I thought to myself "Why not spend several hours of the morning looking to see if the viewers' voting preferences were different to the judges". Because I don't have a life.
Most countries had a 50% split between the judges and viewer votes, although Albania and San Marino's points were decided 100% by jury and Georgia's 100% by televote.
My calculations (which I haven't double-checked. So I apologise now if there any any mistakes) suggest the viewers loved Poland's entry whereas the judges were less impressed. Televotes alone would have placed Poland 5th, whereas they came 14th when the judges' votes were combined. I wasn't a fan of Poland's song, but Europe gave it four 12s.
Without the judges' votes:
Hungary were top 5 on the night, but the viewers placed them 10th.
Norway would have dropped from 8th place to 17th. Ouch.
On the night, the UK's entry only managed 17th place, but even that low position was only helped by the judges liking the song a bit more than the viewers: televoting would have led to the song falling another 3 places to 20th.
Of course, what only matters in Eurovision is the winning song (and sometimes the song appearing in last place if it's really bad). The judges and viewers both agreed on that: Austria in 1st place and France last.
Below is a table with the figures which show the final results if there were no judges (with the exception of Albania and San Marino).
Source: http://www.eurovision.tv/page/results
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