Bulgaria wins Eurovision 2026 with Dara's song 'Bangaranga'
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The 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest has passed in the history book writting down as big winner Bulgaria's Dara with the song 'Bangaranga'
After months of national selections and preparations and two weeks of ongoing rehearsals and two semifinals, Eurovision 2026 concluded with the Grand Final Live Show taking place at Wiener Stadthalle Arena in Vienna Austria this evening.
A total of 25 countries competed in this evening's show. The 20 qualifiers from the 1st and 2nd semi final shows along with the pre-qualified Big-5 countries (France, Germany, Italy , United Kingdom) and last year's winners, Austria, , took the stage for their final performance.
The Grand final show was hosted by Victoria Swarowski and Michael Ostrowski, who guided the audience through both semi-final live shows.
The show opens with the traditional flag parade an the 2026 victorious entry Wasted Love performed by last year's winner JJ.
The competing countries
The running order has been decided by the producers and appeared on stage as following:
01. Denmark: Søren Torpegaard Lund - Før Vi Går Hjem
02. Germany: Sarah Engels - Fire
03. Israel: Noam Bettan - Michelle
04. Belgium: ESSYLA - Dancing on the Ice
05. Albania: Alis - Nân
06. Greece: Akylas - Ferto
07. Ukraine: LELÉKA - Ridnym
08. Australia: Delta Goodrem - Eclipse
09. Serbia: LAVINA - Kraj Mene
10. Malta: AIDAN - Bella
11. Czechia: Daniel Zizka - CROSSROADS
12. Bulgaria: DARA - Bangaranga
13. Croatia: LELEK - Andromeda
14. United Kingdom: LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei
15. France: Monroe - Regarde !
16. Moldova: Satoshi - Viva, Moldova!
17. Finland: Linda Lampenius x Pete Parkkonen - Liekinheitin
18. Poland: ALICJA - Pray
19. Lithuania: Lion Ceccah - Sólo Quiero Más
20. Sweden: FELICIA - My System
21. Cyprus: Antigoni - JALLA
22. Italy: Sal Da Vinci - Per Sempre Sì
23. Norway: JONAS LOVV - YA YA YA
24. Romania: Alexandra Căpitănescu - Choke Me
25. Austria: COSMÓ - Tanzschein
Interval Acts
Once the competing part was over and while the televoting was underway the organisers invited on stage iconic Eurovision stars to treat the audience with performances past entries to celebrate the 70 years of Eurovision Song Contest.
Verka Serduchka (Ukraine 2007) Ruslana (Ukraine 2004) , Aleksander Rybak ( Norway 2009), Erika Vikman (Finland 2025) graced the stage delivering past Eurovision entries.
Voting process & Results
The final outcome of the competition was determined 50% by the national juries' votes and the rest 50% by the public vote. With the jury votes cast last evening during the Jury show, the results of which were firstly announced today by the national spokespersons, the rest 50% was determined tonight by the televoting, which followed the jury results.
The televote opened at the start of the show just before the first delegate took to the stage. Viewers not based in the thirty five competing countries wiere also be able to vote in the Rest of the World vote. The online only platform opened 24 hours befofe tonight’s Grand Final after last night’s Jury Show.
Jury voting ranking
This is how the jury voting scoreboard looked once all 35 national juries had announced their points:
Televoting results and overall winner
This is how the final scoreboard turned out after adding the public votes in:
Congratulations to Dara and Bulgaria for their first victory in the Eurovision Song Contest!!!
News Source: Eurovision.tv
Cover photo: EBU/ Corinne Cumming
Video Source: Y.T Eurovision channel
AUTHORS
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Angelos D.
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