Summary

  • Ukraine's Jamala wins 61st Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden

  • Australia finishes in second place. Russia in third

  • UK entrants Joe and Jake finish in 24th place out of 26 acts

Live Reporting

Steven McIntosh and Genevieve Hassan

  1. Goodnight

    JamalaAP

    Well, that's just about it from our live page tonight.

    Thanks so much for joining us and getting in touch with all your thoughts - you've kept us thoroughly entertained.

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      See you next year in Kiev!  

  2. Eurovision: A brief summary

    Judging by Twitter:

    • The British public are not fans of the British jury
    • Having said that, it's thanks to juries' votes that the UK got the most points it's had since 2011
    • Many people are happy for Ukraine but puzzled that a political song was allowed to qualify in the first place
    • Justin Timberlake should have been allowed to compete and would be a welcome annual fixture at all future contests, just saying
    • Verka Serduchka simply must host next year
    • And finally, as always, you can't please everyone

    Here's the final scoreboard:

    Eurovision scoreboard

  3. One thing is for sure - that was one heck of an entertaining show tonight.

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  4. BBC Monitoring

    Apparently Jamala's victory caught Ukrainian TV networks by surprise - even the news-based 5 Kanal is keeping quiet, same for Inter, One Plus One, Ukrayina and News One.

  5. Very interesting to see your reactions to tonight's result, here's a small selection of the tweets we've spotted:

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  6. View from Stockholm

    Helen Bushby
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    So Ukraine confounded the bookmakers and Eurovision commentators who had been convinced that Russia - or possibly Australia - would win.

    The computer graphics behind Russia's song and the brilliance of Australia's singing weren't enough to defeat jazz artist Jamala.

    She is the first ever Crimean Tatar to perform at the contest, and her song could not have been further from the usual Eurovision fare.

    1944 is about the mass deportation during World War Two of the entire ethnic Tatar population from Crimea, by Soviet troops under the orders of Stalin.  

    Jamala dedicated the song to her great grandmother Nazylkhan, who with her five children were among a quarter of a million Tatars who packed on trains "like animals".  

    "I had to release their souls. Because they never came back to Ukraine," she has said.

  7. Important question: Does this mean Verka Serduchka will host next year's contest in Ukraine? 

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      We certainly hope so!   

  8. JamalaGetty Images

    Ukraine's Jamala has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest, held in Stockholm, Sweden.

    The country scored 534 points with its song 1944, about Stalin, Crimea and claims of ethnic cleansing.

    Australia finished second with 511 points, while Russia - which was the favourite going into the competition - was third with 491 points.

    Joe and Jake, who represented the UK with their song You're Not Alone, finished in 24th place with 62 points.

  9. BBC Monitoring

    "The voting was biased, it's clear", Russian state TV commentators say. "Burning disappointment".

    "Sergey was the best for us anyway".

  10. And this from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko:

     "YES! Incredible performance and victory! All of Ukraine thanks you, Jamala!"

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  11. Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman has tweeted:

    "Bravo, Jamala is the best! Sincere congratulations on the win! Glory to Ukraine!"  

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  12. Ukraine reacts to win

    BBC Monitoring

    Presenters on Ukrainian state TV are ecstatic, shouting: "This is fantastic, thank you Jamala!

    "We've been waiting for this moment for 12 years. This is unreal, we can't believe this."

  13. New voting system helps Ukraine to victory

    Well - we don't know about you, but we think the new voting system is fascinating. 

    We were absolutely glued to our screens there, not going to lie. Proper edge-of-your-seat stuff.

    Australia were miles ahead with the juries, but when the public votes were added, they were leapfrogged by Ukraine.

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  14. Ukraine win Eurovision Song Contest 2016
    Breaking

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    Ukraine leap into first place when the public votes are taken into account, and finish with 534 points.

  15. Incredibly, Poland leap from last place to sixth when the public's votes are taken into account.

  16. Interestingly, Australia only came fourth in the public's rankings. They were the clear winner with the juries.

  17. Looks like the UK is going to finish in third last place...

    It was all going so well for us until the public got involved!

  18. As Graham Norton notes - very interesting to see the huge disparity between the juries' votes and the public's votes.

  19. Stand by

    The announcement of the winner is imminent...

  20. Oh dear - the UK comes second last in collated public votes.