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🇲🇩 With Selecția Națională tomorrow, it felt fitting to reveal the bid for the stage design I sent in. Out of five bids, we finished second and fell on the finish line, which I'm still proud of. Will come back and try again next year :)

Thanks to the votes of over 3,600 fans, AUSTRALIA is the winner of the #Eurovision grand audience poll! As always, many thanks to: @ESCinsight @esc_gabe @_Merci_Cherie @ThatEuroSite @escxtra for your hard work! #Eurovision

📊 WE HAVE A RESULT! Tonight, the Jury Show took place for the Final of #Eurovision 2026, where we asked the audience who attended to name their favourite! 🇦🇺 #Australia’s @DeltaGoodrem sweeps the Audience Poll and wins with over 500 votes.

🗳️ The results of the #Eurovision Audience Poll 2026 Grand Final are here! After the evening preview we worked with @vDanDesign, @12PointsUSA, @ESCinsight, @esc_gabe, @_Merci_Cherie & @ThatEuroSite to get the first reactions from those leaving the arena!

📊3620 votes were cast in tonight's Grand Final Audience Poll - and the favourite with 562 votes/15.5% is AUSTRALIA!🇦🇺 In second, Bulgaria🇧🇬 with 417 votes/11.5% In third, Finland🇫🇮 with 365 votes/10.1% Conducted by @escxtra @ESCinsight @esc_gabe @12PointsUSA @ThatEuroSite @_Merci_Cherie #Eurovision

poll in a minute! :)

@rasmusbravado Yes

@vDanDesign similar to how dmgp announce it?

The winner is announced like an election with a rising bar for the jury winner until their televotes run out. The (fake) winner of the #Eurovision Jury Show of 2026 is ITALY!

@ge_aldrig_upp Well, old Melfest style!

@vDanDesign Though Melfest has done a full performance reprise this year with Felicia :P

The winner's reprise is done Melfest style - performing on a walk from the green room to the stage. Italy's song is played again. #Eurovision

And that is it! Thank you all so much for following along to my livetweeting for this week's Dress Rehearsals! Look out for the Audience Poll later! Ciao :)

Split screen. It's either Italy with their 431 points or Serbia, who need 206 points to win. There's a graphic on the screen that says how many points they need to win. The tiebreaker rule is explained.

"And for all the countries that didn't participate tonight - we miss you, and you're all welcome back", Michael says during the televote. Interesting to have that said out loud during the show. #Eurovision

@12PointsUSA I did forget that so I’m glad they told us

@vDanDesign Thank goodness they remind us we were all united by music too, I was worried for a second

Moldova gets a fake audience 0, and Michael explains "this doesn't mean no one voted for you, it just means you weren't in the country's top 10!" #Eurovision

@ur_pookie_stare Soundwise yes but otherwise no, it's like any other scoreboard imo

@vDanDesign gabe said this scoreboard was very confusing, would you agree with that matter?

There's like 5 sound effects for every 12 points that are given out. Why not? #eurovision

Serbia's won the fake jury vote tonight with 226 points. Italy and Bulgaria rounds out the top 3 with 201 and 199 points respectively. #Eurovision

And the moment has come - time for the Jury Vote! (of course this isn't real and it's totally random but this has to be mentioned every year) #Eurovision

To the tune of ”Rise Like a Phoenix” we get a look back at all the previous winners. #Eurovision

Time for a VT with Billy Joel talking about Vienna. This feels extremely random, it's just.. because Vienna? So they recorded a short video with Billy Joel? Sure. Now we go to the stage where Cesar Sampson performs 'Vienna' at a piano. #Eurovision