Voting in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 -
Eurovision Song Contest 2025
1. Viewers will be invited to vote for their favourite act(s) in Semi-Final 2 and the Grand Final.
2. Voting is by telephone only. Voters in the UK can choose either to call from their landline using the long (11-digit) number for the country of their choice or from their mobile phones using the shortcode (7-digit) number for the country of their choice. Please note, callers from the Channel Islands and Isle of Man should call from their landlines using the long (11-digit) number to avoid higher mobile charges as the short (7-digit) numbers are not available in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man for reasons outside of the BBC’s control.
3. The numbers to be used will be given during the programme(s). Please note, you cannot vote by email, text/SMS or via this website. The only voting using the mobile app promoted during the programme for UK viewers will be via a mobile phone shortcode launched from the app. No text voting via the app is available in the UK. More information about how to telephone vote through the official Eurovision mobile apps on smartphones can be found here. The app is distributed by a third party and the BBC does not control nor is responsible for any app content or functionality.
4. Vote lines are opened and closed as specified in the programmes. Votes received outside the specified times will not be counted. Voting times may change.
5. UK-based viewers may only vote in the Semi-Final broadcast on Thursday 15th May 2025 and the Grand Final on Saturday 17th May 2025.
Voting in the Semi-Final
6. Although there are two semi-finals, UK viewers can only vote in the second Semi-Final on 15th May 2025. The six countries who are automatically through to the Grand Final (UK, , , Spain Italy and Switzerland as last year’s winners) are featured in the two semi-finals but the public will not be able to vote for them.
7. In the semi-finals, there will be one set of points awarded which are the points from the public televote (see below) from each of the Eurovision countries plus the points from the Rest of the World (RoW) public vote that counts as one additional country. The ten highest scoring acts in each Semi-Final, once all the televote points have been combined, will go through to the Grand Final and are revealed in no particular order. Juries from the participating countries in Semi-Final 1 and Semi-Final 2 (as well as the pre-qualified countries voting in each of the Semi-Finals) will cast their votes, but their votes will not count towards the result of the Semi-Finals unless a valid audience vote has not been recorded or an aggregated substitute result cannot be used.
Voting in the Grand Final
8. In the Grand Final, UK-based callers may NOT vote for the UK act. Any votes from the UK for the UK act will not count.
9. In the Grand Final, the final scores of the songs shall be calculated on the basis of both the results of the public televoting and the results of the national juries appointed. For the national jury vote of each country, the score of each song in each country shall be determined as follows: 12 points shall be allocated to the song having obtained the best rank from the national jury; 10 points to the song having obtained the second-best rank from the national jury, 8 points to the song having obtained the third-best rank from the national jury, 7 points to the next, and so on down to 1 point for the song having obtained the tenth-best rank from the national jury. In calculating the combined ranks from each jury member ranking, an exponential weight model is used. For more information please see the Eurovision website.
10. Separately, the points awarded from the public vote from each country for each song shall be determined as follows: an additional 12 points shall be allocated to the song having obtained the highest number of votes from the UK televoting; 10 points to the song having obtained the second-highest number of votes from the UK televoting, 8 points to the song having obtained the third-highest number of votes from the UK televoting, 7 points to the next, and so on down to 1 point for the song having obtained the tenth-highest number of votes from the UK televoting. The jury and public televote points will be presented separately. The Audience in each participating country will award a total of 58 points (1 – 8, 10 and 12). The Audience voting online from non-participating countries (Rest of The World) will also award a total of 58 points (1 – 8, 10 and 12). The Jury in each of the 37 participating countries will also award a total of 58 points (1 – 8, 10 and 12). Each Jury will watch and cast their votes based on Dress Rehearsal 2, which will take place in the evening of Friday 16 May 2025.
11. The winner of the Grand Final shall be the song which has obtained the highest number of points from the combined calculation of the total points from all of the televoting results, including RoW, and the total points awarded from all of the national juries' from all participating countries. Therefore, the ratio in the final is 50.7% Audience voting, 49.3% Jury voting.
National Jury
12. Each national jury will consist of 5 including a chairperson. The shall be professionals within the music industry and nationals of the relevant country.
13. The of each national jury will watch the live transmission of the 2nd dress rehearsal for both the Grand Final and the Semi Final in which that country is voting. After the transmission they will vote in accordance with the European Broadcasting Union Rules.
Ties
14. In the event of a tie, the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Rules prescribe the following:
14.1. For resolving a tie in the national jury ranking – the system will look at the individual results of the jury and the overall rank will be determined by firstly looking at these individual ranks and then if necessary the age of the jury .
14.2. For resolving a tie in a country’s televote – the result of that country’s national jury will determine the order; the song having obtained the best rank of the national jury will be ranked highest.
14.3. For resolving a tie due to two songs receiving the same number of points from all national juries - the winner in that tie shall be the song that obtained points from the highest number of national juries. If the tied songs have received points from the same number of juries, the highest number of 12-point scores from all juries shall be decisive. If the winner still cannot be determined by this procedure, the number of times ten points have been awarded shall be the deciding factor. If necessary, this method shall continue until has been taken of the number of times one point has been awarded. In the very unlikely case that after applying the above procedure there is still a tie, the tie shall be resolved by giving precedence to the country which was earlier in the running order for the respective show in question.
14.4. The same process described above applies for any two songs receiving the same number of points from all national audiences in the televote.
14.5. For resolving a tie due to two songs receiving the same number of votes from the RoW Audience - this shall be resolved by using an aggregated result which shall be automatically calculated on the basis of the results of National Juries of a pre-selected group of countries.
14.6. Solving a tie in the combined Jury and Audience result due to two or more songs having received the same number of points - the winner shall be the song which has obtained the highest rank from all the national audiences and the RoW voting.
14.7. More information can be found in the published Rules on the Eurovision website.
Other Rules
15. Voters in the UK can choose either to call from their landline using the long (11-digit) number for the song(s) of their choice or from their mobile phones using the shortcode (7-digit) number for the song(s) of their choice. Please note that callers from the Channel Islands and Isle of Man should call from their landlines using the long (11-digit) number to avoid higher mobile charges, as the short (7-digit) numbers are not available in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man for reasons outside of the BBC’s control.
16. Calls to the long (11-digit) number from landlines and mobiles cost 15p plus your network’s access charge. To vote from your mobile in the UK, please call the short (7-digit) number announced for your chosen song(s). Calls from mobiles to the short (7-digit) number cost 15p per vote and should cost less than calling the long (11-digit) number from your mobile so please, if you can, dial the short (7-digit) number from your mobile. You cannot text and you cannot dial the short (7-digit) number from a landline (in some very limited cases, this may result in the call terminating on a subscriber’s number from your same telephone exchange).
17. The maximum number of times you can vote is 20 per phone number. Any additional votes won’t be counted and you will not be charged.
18. Voters must obtain permission from the bill payer before voting. Voters aged 16 and under should obtain parent/guardian consent before voting. Votes are only open to individuals as consumers calling from the UK, and not to any agencies, businesses and/or companies.
19. The BBC can only guarantee that votes individually entered directly through the telephone numbers promoted on the show will count. Voting by way of mobile app promoted during the programme is via a connection to these telephone numbers. Text voting within the app will not be available to UK viewers.
20. Make sure you carefully dial only the number of the song(s) you wish to vote for.
21. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify votes if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that there has been any deliberate attempt to rig or manipulate the voting.
22. The BBC, its sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any telephone network or line, system, server, provider or otherwise which may result in any vote not being properly ed or recorded.
23. The BBC reserves the right to cancel or suspend voting at any time if it considers it has reasonable cause to do so or if there is a technical difficulty of any kind.
24. For purpose of ing any claim for refunds (where offered) or investigating possible voting irregularities, the BBC may need to request the network operator to disclose the telephone number that you are voting from. Please note that this will still be required where you have originally opted not to disclose your telephone number (caller’s line identification barring). If you do not agree to this, you should not vote.
25. Where such investigations are required, the BBC will only ever use your telephone number for the purposes of processing refunds or investigating possible voting irregularities and will not publish or provide it to anyone without permission, except where required for enforcement of these . You can read more about the BBC at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy
26. In the unlikely event of a failure in the telephone votes for technical or similar reasons, a full explanation of how the Contest organisers allocate points in this situation will be made available on the BBC website and Eurovision social media channels after the show.
27. The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is produced under the auspices of the European Broadcasting Union. The rules are issued by the European Broadcasting Union and are common across all participating countries. More details can be found on the EBU's website.
28. The voting in this programme accords with the BBC's Code of Conduct for Competitions and Voting, details of which can be found on the BBC’s Standards and Guidelines website.
29. These and Conditions are governed by the laws of England and Wales.
30. Fonix PLC acts as the Merchant for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 and will comply with The Regulation of Rate Services Order 2024. If you have any queries regarding the phone service, please Fonix PLC at the following email address: [email protected] or write to Fonix PLC, 23 Heddon Street, London, W1B 4BQ or call on the following Helpline Number: 0208 114 7001 (Monday to Friday 9:00 - 17:30, standard geographic charges from landlines and mobiles will apply).
