Charlotte MacDonald
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1,889 appearances
62 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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And here are the results of the UK telephone vote.
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In first place, Poland!
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This year's Eurovision was extra special for Conchita Wurst, a beautiful woman with a beard who won the competition for Austria.
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It was also extra special for all of us statistical nerds because it was the first time we were able to see a full breakdown of the public and the jury votes for each act in each country.
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We normally don't know if the jury, made up of five music industry professionals, and the public have voted the same way.
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Turns out, when you look at how the public voted and how the jury voted separately, you get some interesting results, especially for Poland.
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Poland was 14th in the official rankings, but the European public were much more keen on the buxom milkmaids than the juries.
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The juries put them in 23rd place, but the public put them in 5th.
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In the UK, the difference was even more pronounced.
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The jury put them in last position, but the public voted them in first position.
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Stay classy, United Kingdom.
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And there were other big discrepancies between how the jury and the public voted in the UK.
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Azerbaijan was in the jury's top ten, but right down near the bottom of the table in the public vote.
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And there were other surprises hidden in the results.
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Although Austria's bearded lady Conchita Wurst was a bookie's favourite, there were fears more conservative parts of Eastern Europe might not vote for her.
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Graham was wrong about Slovenia, who gave Conchita 12 points.
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But digging into Eastern European votes produces some interesting facts.
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Take, for instance, Belarus, where the state broadcaster was petitioned to block the transmission in case Conchita turned the country into a hotbed of sodomy.
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The jury hated the singer and ranked her nearly last, but the public put her in fourth place.
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And in Russia, the jury would have given Conchita nul point, but the public ranked her third.
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