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The 'Eurovision Song Contest 1988' was the 33rd Eurovision Song Contest and was held on April 30, 1988 in Dublin. The presenters were Pat Kenny and Michelle Rocca. Future international superstar Céline Dion, then only famous in the French-speaking world, was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi. This was the second victory, and, as of 2007, the last, for Switzerland. The first one was in 1956: ''Refrain'', performed by Lys Assia. It was also the last time a song sung in the French language won the Contest, having dominated it in earlier years.
Cyprus was drawn second to compete in Dublin and had selected the song 'Thimame San To Rock 'n' Roll' sung by Yiannis Dimitrou as their entry. However, at a late stage CyBC decided that the song was ineligible to represent them as it had been entered into the 1984 Cypriot selection, where it had finished in 3rd place. This was classed as a breach of the Cypriot rules of selecting their entry at this time and so Cyprus withdrew from the 1988 contest. It was quite a last minute decision as the song was advertised in the Radio Times information about the preview programme of the contest. The song also appears on the Norwegian record release of the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest entries.

Contents

Results

Voting structure

Score Sheet

Map

Results

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	Translation	Place	Points
1		Icelandic	Beathoven(Stefán Hilmarsson)	Þú og þeir (Sókrates)	You and they (Socrates)	16	20
2		Swedish	Tommy Körberg	Stad i ljus	City of light	12	52
3		Finnish	Boulevard	Nauravat silmät muistetaan	Laughing eyes are remembered	20	3
4		English	Scott Fitzgerald	Go	-	2	136
5		Turkish	MFÖ	Sufi	Sufi	15	37
6		Spanish	La Década	Made in Spain (La chica que yo quiero)	The girl that I want (made in Spain)	11	58
7		Dutch		Shangri-la	Shangri-la	9	70
8		Hebrew	Yardena Arazi	Ben adam	Human being	7	85
'9'	''	'French'	'Céline Dion'	'Ne partez pas sans moi'	' Don't leave without me '	'1'	'137'
10		English	Jump The Gun	Take him home	-	8	79
11		German		Lied für einen Freund	Song for a friend	14	48
12		German		Lisa, Mona Lisa	Lisa, Mona Lisa	21	0
13		Danish	Kirsten Siggaard & Søren Bundgaard	Ka' du se hva' jeg sa'?	Don't you see, that's what I told you?	3	92
14		Greek	Afroditi Frida	Clown	-	17	10
15		Norwegian	Karoline Krüger	For vår jord	For our earth	5	88
16		French	Reynaert	Laissez briller le soleil	Let the sun shine	18	5
17		French	Lara Fabian	Croire	Believing	4	90
18		Italian		Vivo (ti scrivo)	Alive (I write you)	12	52
19		French	Gérard Lenorman	Chanteur de charme	Crooner	10	64
20		Portuguese	Dora	Voltarei	I'll come back	18	5
21		Croatian	Srebrna Krila	Mangup	Rascal	6	87

Voting structure

Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs.
With the conclusion of voting from the penultimate jury, the UK representative Scott Fitzgerald looked well-placed for victory, holding a five-point lead over Switzerland. As the final jury, that of Yugoslavia, began to award its points in the customary ascending order, the international audience held its breath to see how the two rivals for victory would fare. Switzerland were the first to be named with six points, barely enough to keep their hopes of winning alive, edging them as it did into a one-point lead. However, given the pattern of voting all evening, it seemed highly likely that the UK would be given one of the higher set of points. But remarkably, after the seven, eight, ten and twelve points were announced, it transpired that Yugoslavia had awarded the UK no points at all, and Switzerland were left to savour a dramatic triumph.

Score Sheet

		Juries
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Contestants	Iceland		1	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	1	2	8	0
	Sweden	3		0	2	0	0	8	0	0	5	0	0	8	0	'12'	1	3	10	0	0	0
	Finland	0	0		0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	United Kingdom	1	5	10		'12'	10	0	10	5	7	10	10	10	6	5	'12'	8	'12'	0	3	0
	Turkey	0	4	0	1		5	1	8	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	6	0	0
	Spain	2	0	0	0	5		0	2	6	0	0	8	1	8	2	6	6	8	0	0	4
	Netherlands	0	0	0	6	6	0		7	7	2	6	0	0	'12'	0	0	'12'	5	0	0	7
	Israel	6	0	6	4	0	6	3		10	1	5	2	0	3	0	10	5	3	10	10	1
	Switzerland	7	'12'	5	10	10	8	10	4		10	'12'	0	0	10	8	4	1	7	1	'12'	6
	Ireland	0	7	2	3	2	'12'	6	0	4		7	6	7	0	7	5	0	0	4	5	2
	Germany	8	0	0	5	1	3	0	5	0	6		0	6	0	4	0	0	0	0	2	8
	Austria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Denmark	10	3	4	0	0	1	'12'	6	1	4	4	'12'		0	10	7	0	0	'12'	6	0
	Greece	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	7	0	0
	Norway	5	8	7	'12'	0	0	7	1	0	8	1	3	5	7		3	0	4	0	7	10
	Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	5	0	0
	Luxembourg	4	10	'12'	7	0	0	5	0	'12'	'12'	0	1	2	2	6	8		2	0	4	3
	Italy	0	0	8	0	4	7	0	0	8	0	2	5	0	0	3	0	2		8	0	5
	France	0	2	3	0	8	2	2	0	3	0	3	7	3	5	1	2	10	0		1	'12'
	Portugal	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0
	Yugoslavia	'12'	6	1	8	7	0	0	'12'	2	3	0	4	'12'	4	0	0	7	6	3	0
	The table is ordered by appearance.

Map

★ Green = Participating countries

★ Yellow = Countries who have participated in the past but don't this year