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style="font-size: larger;" | Eurovision Song Contest 1966

Date:	March 5, 1966
Presenter:	Josiane Shen
Host Broadcaster:	RTL
Venue:	Grand Auditorium de RTL, Villa Louvigny, Luxembourg
Winning Song:	"Merci Chérie" by Udo Jürgens (music by Udo Jürgens, text by Udo Jürgens and Thomas Hörbiger) for Austria
Voting system:	Each country had 10 jury members who distributed three points among their one, two, or three favorite songs. The points were totaled and the first, second, and third placed songs were awarded 5, 3, and 1 votes in order. If only one song got every point within the jury it would get all 9 points. If only two songs were chosen, the songs would get 6 and 3 points in order.
Number of Songs:	18
Countries Making Debut	None
Nul points:	Italy, Monaco
Interval Act:	Music by Les Haricots.
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1966 was the eleventh Eurovision and was held on 5 March 1966 in Luxembourg. The rule stating that a country could only sing in any of its national languages was originally created in this year. This was possibly created due to the 1965 Swedish entry, "Absent Friend" which was sung in English.

Results

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Austria
(German)Belgium
(French)Denmark
(Danish)Finland
(Finnish)France
(French)Ireland
(English)Italy
(Italian)Luxembourg
(French)Monaco
(French)Netherlands
(Dutch)Norway
(Norwegian)Portugal
(Portuguese)Spain
(Spanish)Sweden
(Swedish)Switzerland
(French)United Kingdom
(English)Yugoslavia
(Slovene)

Country (Language)	Artist(s)	Song (Translation)	Place	Points
Udo Jürgens	Merci, Chérie (Thank you, darling)	1	31
Tonia	Un peu de poivre, un peu de sel (A littlebit of pepper, a liitlebit of salt)	4	14
Ulla Pia	Stop, ja stop - ja stop, mens legen er go	14	4
Ann Christine Nyström	Playboy	10	7
Dominique Walter	Chez nous (With us)	16	1
Germany (German)	Margot Eskens	Die Zeiger der Uhr (The hands of the clock)	10	7
Dickie Rock	Come Back to Stay	4	14
Domenico Modugno	Dio, come ti amo	17	0
Michele Torr	Ce soir je t'attendais	10	7
Tereza	Bien plus fort	17	0
Milly Scott	Fernando en Philippo (Fernando and Philippo)	15	2
Åse Kleveland	Intet er nytt under solen	3	15
Madalena Iglesias	Ele e Ela	13	6
Raphael	Yo soy aquél	7	9
Lill Lindfors & Svante Thuresson	Nygammal vals (eller hip man svinaherde)	2	16
Madeleine Pascal	Ne vois-tu pas	6	12
Kenneth McKellar	A Man Without Love	9	8
Berta Ambrož	Brez besed	7	9
The table is ordered alphabetically by country names.

Score sheet

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		Juries
Germany		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	1	0	0	0	0
Denmark	0		0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Belgium	5	0		0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0
Luxembourg	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Yugoslavia	3	0	0	0		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Norway	1	0	0	0	0		0	0	3	3	3	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Finland	0	3	0	0	0	3		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Portugal	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Austria	0	0	5	5	5	0	0	1		0	1	3	5	3	3	0	0	0
Sweden	0	5	0	0	0	5	5	0	0		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spain	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Switzerland	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	0		3	0	0	0	3	0
Monaco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0
Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0
France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		0	0	0
Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	1
Ireland	0	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3		0
United Kingdom	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
The table is ordered by appearance.

Map

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• Green = Participating countries

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