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Hi guys! It's just a few hours before the voting starts, but how much does your vote cost this year? Did you know that Danes 🇩🇰 pay just 13 cents for their vote while neighboring Finns 🇫🇮 pay more than 10 times that – 1.5 EUR, and all this while fellow Sammarinese 🇸🇲 can't vote at all! Check out that map I just made.

I was inspired by the fact in a recent post that just 400 people are enough to bring someone to the TOP-3 in televote in a Big Five country (Spain's 2025 voting and Poland's 8080 votes). Of course this depends on how expensive, accessible and therefore actually popular the voting is. Looking at the map, it looks almost random and makes no sense whatsoever – someone in Switzerland pays 1.31 EUR but then just 500 meters away someone in Germany pays only 0.20 EUR. It got me thinking about the fairness of Eurovision – how many people are actually voting, and how easy it is to just „buy“ a winning spot. Is it known how many votes are cast per country? I wonder if we could see any connection here.

What do you think about these huge differences per country? Would you cast more votes if they were cheaper? To give my own perspective from Germany, I'm actually super happy with this affordable price because it allows me to proportionally distribute my votes without actually spending much, for example my last year's 10 votes went to Estonia, 3 to Malta, 2 to Luxembourg and Poland, and the rest just as consolatory „likes“. I think it's amazing to cast 20 votes just spending 4 EUR and being able to feel connected. If it was more expensive, I wouldn't vote at all probably. How is it in your country? Maybe if we had more data on the number of votes, we could know not just how much a vote costs but how much it actually weighs. I did a quick search and these numbers are actually not public. Do you think Eurovision should be a bit more transparent about this?

P.S. reposting with a better map version

Hi guys! Just a few hours ahead the voting starts, but how much does your vote cost this year? Did you know that Danes 🇩🇰 pay just 13 cents for their vote while neighboring Finns 🇫🇮 pay more than 10 times that – 1.5 EUR, and all this while fellow Sammarinese 🇸🇲 can't vote at all! Check out that map I just made.

I was inspired by the fact from the recent post that just 400 people is enough to bring someone to TOP-3 in televote in a Big Five country (Spain's 2025 voting and Poland's 8080 votes). Of course this depends on how expensive, accessible and therefore actually popular the voting is. Looking at the map, it looks almost random and makes no sense whatsoever – someone in Switzerland pays 1.31 EUR but then just 500 meters away someone in Germany pays only 0.20 EUR. It got me thinking about the fairness of Eurovision – how many people are actually voting, and how easy it is to just „buy“ a winning spot. Is it known how many votes are cast per country? I wonder if we could see any connection here.

What do you think about these huge differences per country? Would you cast more votes if they were cheaper? To give my own perspective from Germany, I'm actually super happy with this affordable price because it allows me to proportionally distribute my votes without actually spending much, for example my last year's 10 votes to Estonia, 3 to Malta, 2 to Luxembourg and Poland, and the rest just as consolatory „likes“. I think it's amazing to cast 20 votes just spending 4 EUR and being able to feel connected. If it was more expensive, I wouldn't vote at all probably. How is it in your country? Maybe if we have more data on the number of votes, we can know not just how much a vote costs but how much it actually weighs.