OGAE Poll 2017 predicts Italy as the winner for Eurovision Song Contest 2017

OGAE aka General Organisation for Eurovision Fans comprises a network of 42 Eurovision Song Contest fan clubs across Europe and beyond. These fan clubs vote for their favourite acts from the competition and on the basis of points collected, one country is declared as the winner of the poll.

This year, Italy has been confirmed as the winner of OGAE Poll 2017. Francesco Gabbani is representing the country with the song “Occidentali’s Karma”. The second and third place have been secured respectively by Belgium (Blanche with “City Lights“) and Sweden (Robin Bengtsson with “I Can’t Go On“).

Italy became the only country to receive points from all the other countries. It secured 37 out of 43 available lots of 12 points. Francesco Gabbani got a total of 497 points, 72 points higher that the last year’s winner France. Belgium’s Blanche came second got 335 points and Sweden’s Robin Bengtsson came third got 308 points.

Eight countries did not get any votes from the fan clubs but this by no means eliminate them from the competition. OGAE poll does not represent Eurovision votes. They just give the audience an idea of who the most popular artist is via votes amongst the fan clubs.

As reported by WIWI Bloggs, please find below the points each representative country received in total:

1. Italy – 497 points
2. Belgium – 335 points
3. Sweden – 308 points
4. France – 277 points
5. Estonia – 242 points
6. Portugal – 122 points
7. Bulgaria – 120 points
8. FYR Macedonia – 107 points
9. Israel – 102 points
10. Finland – 64 points
11. Denmark – 43 points
12. Switzerland – 41 points
13. Hungary – 40 points
14. Australia – 36 points
15. Azerbaijan – 34 points
16. Norway – 30 points
17. Romania – 18 points
18. Montenegro – 17 points
19. Belarus – 15 points
20. Austria – 14 points
21. Cyprus – 13 points
22. Latvia – 12 points
23. United Kingdom – 12 points
24. Iceland – 9 points
25. Armenia – 7 points
26. Croatia – 6 points
27. Greece – 6 points
28. San Marino – 5 points
29. Georgia – 4 points
30. Ireland – 4 points
31. Poland – 4 points
32. Netherlands – 3 points
33. Serbia – 3 points
34. Czech Republic – 2 points

These countries did not receive any points: Albania, Germany, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Slovenia, Spain, and Ukraine.

You can view the full OGAE Poll 2017 Results here.

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