I slightly benefit from the wonderful spectacle of excessive camp that’s Eurovision. Eurovision voting has all the time been slightly suspect, with sturdy regional voting patterns. However the 2025 voting patterns appeared significantly odd, with jury scores seeming to have little or no relation to the general public scores. It was significantly noticeable that (IMHO, slightly mediocre) Israel entry obtained solely 60 jury votes, however an enormous 297 public votes. Regardless of the extensively condemned actions of the Netanyahu authorities in Gaza. Additionally, that the Swiss entry obtained 215 jury votes, however 0 public votes. I had a fast dig into the info utilizing my information wrangling software program, Straightforward Information Rework, to see what I may discover.
I copied and pasted the outcomes desk from https://eurovisionworld.com/eurovision/2025 into Straightforward Information Rework. I needed to do a bit of straightforward information wrangling to therapeutic massage the info into the proper columns so I may calculate the Pearson correlation of the jury and public scores.
I repeated this for competitions again to 2016. Listed below are the correlation scores:
| 12 months | Pearson correlation, jury vs public scores |
| 2025 | 0.160 |
| 2024 | 0.627 |
| 2023 | 0.490 |
| 2022 | 0.467 |
| 2021 | 0.618 |
| 2020 | No competitors, as a consequence of COVID-19 |
| 2019 | 0.441 |
| 2018 | 0.255 |
| 2017 | 0.656 |
| 2016 | 0.447 |
It’s noticeable that the correlation is considerably decrease in 2025 than earlier years (the place 1.0 = good correlation, 0.0 = no correlation). The one different yr getting anyplace shut being 2018, the place Sweden obtained 253 jury votes, however solely 21 public votes.
Listed below are the 2025 outcomes as an Excel scatter plot, with a regression line:
And listed here are the 2017 outcomes, for comparability:
In fact, this doesn’t show something. However it does make surprise why there was such an enormous discrepancy this yr.
