Former Junior Eurovision winner, and this year’s Maltese representative Destiny dominated the first semi-final, while Australia struggled with both juries and televoting.
The split results revealed that Ukraine topped the televote with 164 points, with Malta sitting in second with 151 points. Lithuania, Russia and Israel rounded out the Top 5 with the televote. In the jury results, Malta topped the table with 174 points, with Russia in second with 117 points. Rounding out of the Top 5 in the jury vote was Ukraine, Israel and Cyprus.
One of the most interesting results of the semi-final was Croatia, who finished 9th in the televote, and 10th in the jury vote, yet failed to qualify to the final. Norway qualified in 10th place, and achieved just 5 points more than Croatia.
Australia achieved their worst result yet, finishing in 14th place with just 2 points in the televote. This placed them last with the televote, with their jury vote placing them in 14th.
Here are the results of the first semi-final:
- Malta – 325 points
- Ukraine – 267 points
- Russia – 225 points
- Lithuania – 203 points
- Israel – 192 points
- Cyprus – 170 points
- Sweden – 142 points
- Azerbaijan – 138 points
- Belgium – 117 points
- Norway – 115 points
- Croatia – 110 points
- Romania – 85 points
- Slovenia – 44 points
- Australia – 28 points
- North Macedonia – 23 points
- Ireland – 20 points
Check out the full split results below:
