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:
- Italy – 497 points
- Belgium – 335 points
- Sweden – 308 points
- France – 277 points
- Estonia – 242 points
- Portugal – 122 points
- Bulgaria – 120 points
- FYR Macedonia – 107 points
- Israel – 102 points
- Finland – 64 points
- Denmark – 43 points
- Switzerland – 41 points
- Hungary – 40 points
- Australia – 36 points
- Azerbaijan – 34 points
- Norway – 30 points
- Romania – 18 points
- Montenegro – 17 points
- Belarus – 15 points
- Austria – 14 points
- Cyprus – 13 points
- Latvia – 12 points
- United Kingdom – 12 points
- Iceland – 9 points
- Armenia – 7 points
- Croatia – 6 points
- Greece – 6 points
- San Marino – 5 points
- Georgia – 4 points
- Ireland – 4 points
- Poland – 4 points
- Netherlands – 3 points
- Serbia – 3 points
- 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.