Eurovision 2025 Voting: Jury and Televote Result Explained
Austria’s JJ won Eurovision 2025 with 436 points after leading the professional-jury vote and placing fourth in the public vote; the two components together put “Wasted Love” first overall.
Timeline
- 2025-05-13: The first Eurovision 2025 semi-final took place in Basel.
- 2025-05-15: The second semi-final qualified Austria for the final.
- 2025-05-17: JJ won the Grand Final for Austria with Wasted Love and 436 total points.
- 2025-08-20: Vienna was announced as the host city for Eurovision 2026.
Austria won the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel through the combined score for JJ’s “Wasted Love.” The official result gives Austria 436 points: 258 from national professional juries and 178 from the public vote. Those two numbers explain the result more clearly than the final total alone. Austria ranked first with juries and fourth with viewers, then finished first overall because no rival’s jury and public scores added to a higher total. [1][2]
Eurovision’s Grand Final combines two parallel results. Each participating country supplies a professional jury ranking and a public televote ranking, with each side distributing the familiar 1–8, 10 and 12 points. Viewers in eligible non-participating countries also vote online; their combined result is treated as one additional voting entity. The points are added rather than converted into a simple average, so a song can win without topping both halves of the vote. [1][3]
The jury sequence put Austria in a commanding position. JJ received 258 jury points, ahead of Switzerland on 214 and France on 180. The broadcast then revealed the accumulated public scores in jury-score order, beginning with the entry that had the fewest jury points and ending with the jury leader. Austria’s 178 public points were strong but not the largest public total, which kept the outcome uncertain until the last announcement. [1][3]
Israel won the public vote with 297 points but had received 60 jury points, producing 357 in total and second place. Estonia was close behind on 356 after combining 98 jury points with 258 public points. Sweden placed fourth on 321, while Italy completed the top five on 256. This split shows why “televote winner” and “contest winner” can describe different entries: the official champion is determined by the combined scoreboard. [1]
The voting system gives the jury and the public broadly equal weight across participating countries, but their rankings may reflect different preferences. Juries rank performances under the contest’s professional criteria, while the public records eligible paid or online votes during the voting window. A large lead on one side can offset a lower placement on the other. Austria’s result was a clear example of that balance: first with juries, fourth with viewers and first after addition. [1][3]
Tie rules did not decide the 2025 winner because Austria led Israel by 79 points. Under the official procedure, if entries finish level on total points, the one with the higher public score ranks above the other; further criteria are available if that is also tied. The rule helps explain why official rankings cannot always be reconstructed from total points alone, although the top of the 2025 table required no tiebreak. [1][3]
The victory was Austria’s third at Eurovision, following Udo Jürgens in 1966 and Conchita Wurst in 2014. It also triggered the customary next-host process: the winning broadcaster earned the right to stage the following contest, and Vienna was later selected for 2026. That later hosting decision is an outcome of the win, not part of the voting calculation. For the 2025 result itself, the definitive figures remain 258 jury points plus 178 public points, totaling 436 for JJ and Austria. [1][2][4]
Sources
- Eurovision 2025 Grand Final Results: Austria
- Austria Wins Eurovision 2025 with JJ and Wasted Love
- Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Media Handbook
- Vienna Revealed as Host City for Eurovision 2026