Bulgaria Wins 2026 Eurovision Song Contest as U.K. Comes Last With One Point

Bulgaria’s Dara has won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest with 516 points for her song “Banagaranga.”

Israel’s Noam Bettan came second with 343 points for his track “Michelle” while Alexandra Căpitănescu, who was representing Romania with the song “Choke Me,” took home third place with 296 points.

Last place went to the U.K., who were represented by Sam Battle, performing under the stage name Look Mum No Computer, with the track “Eins, Zwei, Drei.”

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Australia and Italy rounded out the top five with Delta Goodrem’s song “Eclipse” coming in fourth place (with 287 points) and Sal Da Vinci, who sang “Per Sempre Sì,” coming in at number five (with 281 points).

Da Vinci won with the track at the Sanremo Music Festival earlier this year, giving him the right of first refusal to represent Italy at Eurovision. Other familiar faces at this year’s competition included Cyprus’s entry Antigoni, who U.K. viewers might know from 2022’s “Love Island” Season 8, who was performing her track “Jalla,” and of course Goodrem, who appeared on long-running Australian soap “Neighbours” before launching a singing career.

Taking place at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria, this year’s contest, which was themed “United by Music,” represented the 70th anniversary of the competition. Austria’s hosts were model and singer Victoria Swarovski and actor Michael Ostrowski

Despite some protests, including the boycott of five countries, this was the second year that Israel came in second place after Yuval Raphael performed her track “New Day Will Rise.” Bettan got a respective number of votes from the juries, coming in fifteenth place once the jury vote had been tallied, and rising to number one after the audience awarded Israel 220 points. However it ultimately couldn’t compete with the 589 audience points for Bulgaria, resulting in the country’s first-ever win at the competition.

This year 35 countries voted in the competition, with votes weighted equally between each country’s juries and the audience.

Last year’s winner, Switzerland’s JJ, was at the competition to hand over the glass trophy to Dara. JJ won in 2025 with the song “Wasted Love,” garnering 436 points.

Eurovision first launched in 1956, making it the world’s longest-running annual international televised music competition.