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The Eurovision Song Contest 1986 was the 31st edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in Bergen, Norway, following the country's victory at the 1985 contest with the song "La det swinge" by Bobbysocks! Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK), the contest was held at Grieghallen on 3 May 1986 and was hosted by previous Norwegian contestant Åse Kleveland.

Eurovision Song Contest 1986
Dates
Final	3 May 1986
Host
Venue	Grieghallen Bergen, Norway
Presenter(s)	Åse Kleveland
Musical director	Egil Monn-Iversen
Directed by	John Andreassen
Executive supervisor	Frank Naef
Executive producer	Harald Tusberg
Host broadcaster	Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK)
Opening act	"Welcome to Music" performed by Åse Kleveland
Interval act	"Bergensiana" performed by Sissel Kyrkjebø and Steinar Ofsdal
Website	eurovision.tv/event/bergen-1986
Participants
Number of entries	20
Debuting countries	Iceland
Returning countries	Netherlands  Yugoslavia
Non-returning countries	Greece  Italy
Participation map      Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1986
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs
Nul points in final	None
Winning song	Belgium "J'aime la vie"
1985 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 1987

Twenty countries took part in this years contest with Greece and Italy deciding not to participate and Yugoslavia and Netherlands returning. Iceland also competed for the first time this year.

The winner was Belgium with the song "J'aime la vie" by Sandra Kim. Belgium was the last of the original 7 countries that had competed in the very first contest to win. Aged 13, Kim was the youngest ever Eurovision winner. Current rules require Eurovision Song Contest participants to be at least 16, so unless the rule is changed, Kim's record will never be broken. In the lyrics of her song, Kim claimed to be 15 years of age, but after the contest, it was revealed that she was actually 13. Switzerland, who finished second, appealed for her to be disqualified, but was not successful.

The 1986 contest was a first for Eurovision in that royalty were among the guests—Crown Prince Harald, Crown Princess Sonja, Princess Märtha Louise and Prince Haakon Magnus were all in attendance.

Background

By 1985, Norway had received the unwanted distinction of being "the nul points country," receiving 0 points three times and coming in last six times. When they finally won the 1985 contest, it was a source of pride among the Norwegian population, and the national broadcaster, NRK, took full advantage of being able to showcase Norway and its achievements in front of over 500 million television viewers. By the autumn of 1985, NRK had decided to hold the next year's contest at the Grieghallen in Bergen, turning down other bids from capital Oslo, and main cities of Stavanger, Sandnes and Trondheim. Bergen is the northernmost city to have ever hosted the Eurovision Song Contest.

As this was the first time Norway hosted a Eurovision Song Contest, NRK commissioned a lavish budget for the event, turning Grieghallen into a Viking-esque "ice palace" for the live show, complete with white and pastel neon lights for the stage. In addition, NRK also had a special diamond-encrusted dress made for presenter Åse Kleveland for her opening number. The prized dress, which weighed upwards of 15 pounds (6.8 kg), is still available for viewing at NRK's costuming department at Marienlyst in Oslo.

Åse Kleveland, a well-known folk guitarist who was President of the Norwegian Association of Musicians and a former Eurovision entrant in 1966, sang the multilingual "Welcome to Music" as the opening act, incorporating English and French primarily, in addition to other European languages. BBC commentator Terry Wogan, at the close of Kleveland's number, dryly remarked, "Katie Boyle (a former Eurovision host for the UK) never sang, did she?"

During her opening speech, Kleveland said of Norway's road in the contest, "For those of you who have followed Norway's course through the history of the Eurovision Song Contest, you will know that it has been quite thorny, in fact. So, imagine our joy when last year we finally won, and the pleasure we feel today, being able to welcome 700 million viewers to the top of Europe, to Norway, and to Bergen."

The intersong videos introducing each participant, traditionally named 'postcards' were for the only time, represented as actual picture postcards sent to each nation. Each video began with clips of various scenic views of a part of Norway, which then 'flipped' to reveal a message of greeting, written in the language of the upcoming song, alongside details of the title, author and composer. The postage stamp on each card (a representation of a genuine Norwegian postage stamp) was linked to the theme of the video content. The postcard then 'flipped' back to the picture side, where the performing artist had been superimposed onto the image. After the video, Åse Kleveland gave details of the entry and introduced the conductors in a mix of English and French, reading from cards represented by the flag of the upcoming country.

One of the interval acts presented featured Norwegian musicians Sissel Kyrkjebø and Steinar Ofsdal, accompanied by Norwegian national broadcasting orchestra, Kringkastingsorkesteret (KORK). They opened with the traditional song of the city of Bergen, Udsikter fra Ulriken (also known as "Nystemte'n"), and presented a number of familiar tunes while showing the sights and sounds of Bergen area. Ofsdal played a range of traditional Norwegian folk instruments such as accordion, recorder and hardingfele. The presentation launched Kyrkjebø into a career as an internationally recognized artist.

Participating countries

Iceland competed for the first time, as the national broadcaster RÚV had finally cemented their satellite television connections with the rest of Europe.[1]

Greece withdrew, as the contest coincided with Holy Saturday. Their entry would have been "Wagon-lit" (Βάγκον λι), performed by Polina, who was backing vocalist of Elpida at the 1979 contest (Elpida represented Cyprus this year). Prior to their withdrawal, they were set to be 18th in the running order between Sweden and Denmark.[2] Italian broadcaster RAI, on the other hand, decided not to send any delegation to Bergen.

Conductors

Each performance had a conductor who directed the orchestra.[3][2]

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Elpida	Cyprus	1979 (for  Greece)

Participants and results

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[4][5]	Points	Place[6]
1	Luxembourg	Sherisse Laurence	"L'amour de ma vie"	French	117	3
2	Yugoslavia	Doris Dragović	"Željo moja" (Жељо моја)	Serbo-Croatian	49	11
3	France	Cocktail Chic	"Européennes"	French	13	17
4	Norway	Ketil Stokkan	"Romeo"	Norwegian	44	12
5	United Kingdom	Ryder	"Runner in the Night"	English	72	7
6	Iceland	ICY	"Gleðibankinn"	Icelandic	19	16
7	Netherlands	Frizzle Sizzle	"Alles heeft ritme"	Dutch	40	13
8	Turkey	Klips ve Onlar	"Halley"	Turkish[lower-alpha 1]	53	9
9	Spain	Cadillac	"Valentino"	Spanish	51	10
10	Switzerland	Daniela Simons	"Pas pour moi"	French	140	2
11	Israel	Moti Giladi and Sarai Tzuriel	"Yavo Yom" (יבוא יום)	Hebrew	7	19
12	Ireland	Luv Bug	"You Can Count On Me"	English	96	4
13	Belgium	Sandra Kim	"J'aime la vie"	French	176	1
14	Germany	Ingrid Peters	"Über die Brücke geh'n"	German	62	8
15	Cyprus	Elpida	"Tora zo" (Τώρα ζω)	Greek	4	20
16	Austria	Timna Brauer	"Die Zeit ist einsam"	German	12	18
17	Sweden	Lasse Holm and Monica Törnell	"E' de' det här du kallar kärlek?"	Swedish	78	5
18	Denmark	Lise Haavik	"Du er fuld af løgn"	Danish	77	6
19	Finland	Kari Kuivalainen	"Never the End"	Finnish	22	15
20	Portugal	Dora	"Não sejas mau para mim"	Portuguese	28	14

Detailed voting results

The winning song, Belgium's "J'aime la vie," received points from every jury (Belgium received five sets of 12 points; every country awarded Belgium at least five points except for Germany, which gave them just one point). Belgium was the leader in the voting from the results of the second jury out of twenty, in the longest winning stretch during voting since 1974. Switzerland was behind Belgium in nearly every part of the voting, but Belgium had a commanding lead from the very beginning. Traditionally some juries give high points to the host country's entrant, but this did not happen this year; no jury gave Norway's song "Romeo" more than six points out of a possible 12.

Belgium scored an absolute record at the time, with Sandra Kim earning a never seen before number of 176 points (that record remained seven years until the 1993 contest, with Ireland scoring 187 points), an average of 9.26 points per voting nation. Kim received 77.2% of the maximum possible score, which, as of 2019, still ranks 8th among all Eurovision winners.

Detailed voting results[7][8]

		Total score	Luxembourg	Yugoslavia	France	Norway	United Kingdom	Iceland	Netherlands	Turkey	Spain	Switzerland	Israel	Ireland	Belgium	Germany	Cyprus	Austria	Sweden	Denmark	Finland	Portugal
Contestants	Luxembourg	117		5	8	12	8	1	8			2	4	7	10	12	8	10	10	2	4	6
	Yugoslavia	49	2				7	5	7	3	3		1	3	4		12	1	1
	France	13				3						7							3
	Norway	44			4			4	2			6		6	5	6	6			5
	United Kingdom	72	4		10	6				6	2	4	2			5	2	3	8	8	10	2
	Iceland	19							5	2	6						4		2
	Netherlands	40	1	2						7	1		8			10	1				3	7
	Turkey	53	6	12			2		6			8	3		6	8		2
	Spain	51	7	4	6		1	2		8		1		5	3			7		3	1	3
	Switzerland	140	12	6	7	5	5	3	12	10	4		12	10	12		5	4	12	4	7	10
	Israel	7			1	1						5
	Ireland	96	3	8	3	2		8		5	12		6		2			12	7	12	8	8
	Belgium	176	10	10	12	8	10	10	10	12	10	10	5	12		1	10	6	6	10	12	12
	Germany	62	8	1			12							8	7			8	5	7	2	4
	Cyprus	4		3										1
	Austria	12												2	1	2					6	1
	Sweden	78	5	7	2	7	3	12	3		7	12				4		5		6	5
	Denmark	77			5	10	6	7	4		5	3	10	4		7	7		4			5
	Finland	22						6	1	1					8	3	3
	Portugal	28				4	4			4	8		7							1

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
5	Belgium	Finland,  France,  Ireland,  Portugal,  Turkey
	Switzerland	Belgium,  Israel,  Luxembourg,  Netherlands,  Sweden
3	Ireland	Austria,  Denmark,  Spain
2	Luxembourg	Germany,  Norway
	Sweden	Iceland,  Switzerland
1	Germany	United Kingdom
	Turkey	Yugoslavia
	Yugoslavia	Cyprus

Spokespersons

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Each country announced their votes in the order of performance. The following is a list of spokespersons who announced the votes for their respective country.

Broadcasts

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National broadcasters were able to send a commentary team to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	FS1	Ernst Grissemann [de]
	Hitradio Ö3	Hans Leitinger [de]
Belgium	RTBF1	French: Patrick Duhamel [fr]	[10][11]
	BRT TV1	Dutch: Luc Appermont	[12]
	RTBF La Première	French: Jacques Mercier	[13]
	BRT Radio 2	Dutch: Julien Put [nl] and Herwig Haes
Cyprus	RIK	Neophytos Taliotis
	RIK Deftero	Pavlos Pavlou
Denmark	DR TV	Jørgen de Mylius
	DR P3	Poul Birch Eriksen [dk]
Finland	YLE TV1	Heikki Harma and Kari Lumikero [fi]	[14]
	YLE 2-verkko	TBC
France	Antenne 2	Patrice Laffont
	France Inter	Julien Lepers
Germany	Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen	Ado Schlier [de]
	Deutschlandfunk/NDR Radio 2	Peter Urban
Iceland	Sjónvarpið	Þorgeir Ástvaldsson [is]	[15]
Ireland	RTÉ 1	Brendan Balfe
	RTÉ Radio 1	Larry Gogan
Israel	Israeli Television	No commentator
	Reshet Gimel	Daniel Pe'er
Luxembourg	RTL Télévision	Valérie Sarn [fr]
	RTL plus	Matthias Krings [de]
	RTL	André Torrent [fr]
Netherlands	Nederland 1	Leo van der Goot [nl]	[16]
Norway	NRK	Knut Bjørnsen
	NRK P1	Erik Diesen and Sverre Christophersen [no]
Portugal	RTP1	Fialho Gouveia
	Antena 1
Spain	TVE 2	Antonio Gómez Mateo
Sweden	TV1	Ulf Elfving	[14]
	SR P3	Jacob Dahlin
Switzerland	TV DRS	German: Bernard Thurnheer [de]
	TSR[lower-alpha 2]	French: Serge Moisson [fr]
	TSI	Italian: Ezio Guidi [it]
Turkey	TRT	Gülgün Baysal
	TRT Radyo 3	Fatih Orbay and Bülent Osma
United Kingdom	BBC1	Terry Wogan	[17][2]
	BBC Radio 2	Ray Moore	[2]
Yugoslavia	TVB 1	Serbo-Croatian: Mladen Popović
	TVZ 1	Serbo-Croatian: Ksenija Urličić
	TVL 1	Slovene: Miša Molk

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Australia	SBS TV	Unknown
Greece	ERT	Mako Georgiadou [el]
Hungary	MTV1	István Vágó

Notes

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 1986

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[ru] Евровидение-1986

Конкурс песни Евровидение 1986 — 31-й конкурс песни «Евровидение». Он прошёл 3 мая 1986 года в городе Берген (Норвегия) на сцене Концертного зала имени Грига.

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