Agence France Presse — English
May 21, 2006 Sunday 1:11 AM GMT

Eurovision Song Contest final results

ATHENS, May 21 2006

Here are the full results from Saturday’s 51th annual Eurovision Song
Contest held in the Greek capital Athens. The scores were tallied on
a points system based on telephone and text voting in 35 countries,
with voters unable to vote for their home entrant.

The competition was won by Finnish heavy rockers Lordi

1 Finland – Lordi, group – 292 points

2 Russia – Dima Bilan, singer – 248

3 Bosnia-Hercegovina – Hari Mata Hari, singer – 229

4 Romania – Mihai Traistariu, singer – 172

5 Sweden – Carola, singer – 170

6 Lithuania – LT United, group – 162

7 Ukraine – Tina Karol, singer – 145

8 Armenia – Andre, singer – 129

9 Greece – Ana Vissi, singer – 128

10 Ireland – Brian Kennedy, singer – 93

11 Turkey – Sibel Tuzun, singer – 91

12 FYR of Macedonia – Elena Raniesteka, singer – 56

13 Croatia – Severina, singer – 56

14 Norway – Christine Guldbrandsen, singer – 36

15 Germany – Texas Lightning, group – 36

16 Latvia – Cosmos, group – 30

17 Switzerland – Six4one, group – 30

18 Denmark – Sidsel Ben Semmane, singer – 26

19 UK – Daz Sampson, singer – 25

20 Moldova – Arsenium, group – 22

21 Spain – Las Ketchup, group – 18

22 France – Virginie Pouchain, singer – 5

23 Israel – Eddie Butler, singer – 4

24 Malta – Fabrizio Fanielleo, singer – 1