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

  1. Postpublished at 23:05 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    Armenia give 12 points to France.

    Bulgaria give Armenia 12 points.

    Russia get 12 points from Cyprus.

    As Graham Norton says - this is quite all-over-the-place so far, lots of different countries being awarded 12 points, but Australia are still firmly ahead.

  2. Postpublished at 23:02 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    Denmark award 10 points to Australia and 12 to Ukraine.

    France awards Italy 12 points.

    Moldova award 12 points to Ukraine

    Although they've collected a lot of points so far, Russia are definitely not doing quite as well as predicted, they were the favourites to win

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  3. Postpublished at 23:00 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    Spain awards 12 points to Armenia

    And 12 to Sweden from Finland.

    And another 12 points to Australia from Switzerland - meaning that Oz are still ahead.

  4. Postpublished at 22:58 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    TWELVE POINTS TO THE UK.

    One more time?

    TWELVE POINTS TO THE UK.

    Thanks Malta :-D

  5. Postpublished at 22:58 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    12 to Ukraine from Georgia and 12 to Ukraine from Bosnia as well.

    Australia are still ahead.

  6. Postpublished at 22:56 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    Czech Republic give the UK four points (whoop whoop) and 12 points to Sweden.

    Ireland give 12 points to Belgium.

  7. Postpublished at 22:54 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    POINTS FOR THE UK KLAXON.

    San Marino have awarded eight points to Joe and Jake - well done guys!

    And 12 points to Ukraine.

  8. Postpublished at 22:54 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    Azerbaijan award 12 points to Russia and 10 to Ukraine.

  9. Postpublished at 22:53 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    Iceland are next (full marks to the bloke for presenting their scores while holding a dog) - with 12 to the Netherlands and 10 to Australia.

  10. Postpublished at 22:52 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    Austria are first up to vote, awarding 12 points to Australia and 10 to Malta.

  11. Postpublished at 22:51 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    Okay, everybody stop what you're doing right now and prepare for...

    THE RESULT.

    (Warning: it's going to be another half an hour before we actually know the winner)

    A reminder that the voting system is a bit different this year.

    Here's the nice chap from Pointless explaining how it all works:

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    Richard Osman expains the 2016 change to Eurovision voting

  12. Lines have closedpublished at 22:45 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    That's it - voting has officially closed!

    Stay with us for the results...

    (PS Any chance Justin could do another song while we're waiting?)

    (PPS Ideally It's Gonna Be Me)

  13. Postpublished at 22:41 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    Petra and MansImage source, AP

    We can't help but agree with these tweets re: Petra and Mans. We take our hats off to them for their excellent and entertaining hosting tonight.

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  14. Postpublished at 22:37 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    There have been four million tweets about Eurovision so far tonight, and the voting hasn't even started!...

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  15. Postpublished at 22:30 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    Let's be honest, Justin Timberlake's performance could've been longer.

    Maybe a little rendition of *NSYNC's Bye Bye Bye or Senorita wouldn't have gone amiss, but, you know, whatever.

    We could definitely get used to A-list popstars performing at the Eurovision interval.

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  16. View from Ukrainepublished at 22:27 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    BBC Monitoring

    Armenian Public TV has avoided mentioning Azerbaijan during its Eurovision broadcast.

    When contestants paraded at the start of the contest, Armenian TV's presenter remained silent as Azerbaijan's entry Samra came on stage. When she was about to start her performance, the presenter avoided mentioning Azerbaijan again, merely saying: "The following is the next country".

    Relations between the two countries have been tense for many years, and recently hostilities flared up again over the disputed territory of Nagorny Karabakh.

  17. Eurovision in cartoonspublished at 22:25 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    A rather clever chap has been drawing quick cartoons of each of tonight's performances.

    Here are some of our favourites.

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  18. Postpublished at 22:23 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    Justin TimberlakeImage source, EPA

    And Justin Timberlake is on!

    Opening with a shortened version of one of his classics, Rock Your Body...

    ...before moving on to his new single, Can't Stop The Feeling.

    Forgive us if there aren't any new updates for a minute or two. We're slightly distracted.

  19. Postpublished at 22:18 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

    Here's who some of you have been voting for so far:

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    (Not sure he's eligible)

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    Of course, some of you are pointing out that how good a song is can often have little to do with it. This diagram has had hundreds of retweets in the space of a few minutes:

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  20. Your Eurovision partiespublished at 22:11 British Summer Time 14 May 2016

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    Time to party!!! Peter and Brian in Kent having a party.

    Eurovision party