Eurovision Song Contest 1982

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**Eurovision Song Contest 1982**

Date	24 April 1982
Presenter(s)	Jan Leeming
Host Conductor	Ronnie Hazlehurst
Host Broadcaster	BBC
Venue	Harrogate Conference Centre, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Winning Song	Ein bißchen Frieden (Germany)
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Number of Songs	18
Countries Making Debut	None
Nul points	Finland
Interval Act	Pictures from Yorkshire and Castle Howard

The Eurovision Song Contest 1982 was the 27th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on April 24, 1982 in Harrogate, United Kingdom. The presenter was Jan Leeming. The German entrant, Nicole, was the winner of this contest with the song, Ein Bisschen Frieden.

Greece were due to participate in the contest with the song 'Sarantapente kopelies' performed by Themis Adamantidis. Although drawn to perform in second place, ERT withdrew the entry a few weeks before the contest.

1 Results
2 Voting structure
3 Score sheet
4 Map

[edit] Results

**1982 Eurovision Song Contest**
Country	Artist(s)	Song	Place	Points
Austria	Mess	Sonntag	9	57
Belgium	Stella	Si tu aimes ma musique	4	96
Cyprus	Anna Vissi	Mono i Agapi	5	85
Denmark	Brixx	Video, Video	17	5
Finland	Kojo	Nuku Pommiin	18	0
Germany	Nicole	Ein bißchen Frieden	1	161
Ireland	The Duskeys	Here Today, Gone Tomorrow	11	49
Israel	Avi Toledano	Hora	2	100
Luxembourg	Svetlana	Cours après le temps	6	78
Netherlands	Bill van Dijke	Jij En Ik	16	8
Norway	Jahn Teigen and Anita Skorgan	Adieu	12	40
Portugal	Doce	Bem Bom	13	32
Spain	Lucia	El	10	52
Sweden	Chips	Dag efter dag	8	67
Switzerland	Arlette Zola	Amour on t'aime	3	97
Turkey	Neco	Hani	15	20
United Kingdom	Bardo	One Step Further	7	76
Yugoslavia	Aske	Halo Halo	14	21
Venue: Harrogate conference centre - Harrogate, United Kingdom
The table is ordered by the countries' names.

[edit] Voting structure

Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs.

Germany were obvious winners, and had the advantage of performing last. After coming second in 1980 and second in Dublin the year previously, Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger took the first (and so far only) Grand Prix for Germany. The winner, Nicole, beat the nearest competition by 61 points and over 13 million West Germans watched her victory on television. Nicole went on to sing the reprise of her song in English, French and Dutch, as well as German, to the delight of the invited audience in Harrogate Conference Centre who stood to applaud her. The English version of her Eurovision winner, A Little Peace, subsequently shot to No1 in the UK Singles Chart.

[edit] Score sheet

		Juries

	Portugal		7	0	4	5	2	1	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	0
	Luxembourg	6		7	6	3	7	0	0	0	2	8	5	4	0	5	7	10	8
	Norway	0	6		0	0	0	0	4	4	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	6	10
	United Kingdom	4	12	6		10	4	5	3	0	12	0	1	2	6	2	1	7	1
	Turkey	0	8	3	0		1	3	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
	Finland	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Switzerland	2	2	4	12	2	0		6	2	10	12	0	7	10	10	10	8	0
	Cyprus	5	4	12	3	0	8	8		0	5	3	7	0	5	7	12	0	6
	Sweden	7	3	8	5	0	3	4	0		8	5	4	8	2	0	5	3	2
	Austria	0	0	0	10	7	0	0	7	0		6	8	6	4	4	0	5	0
	Belgium	8	5	5	2	6	5	2	8	7	4		10	10	7	6	3	4	4
	Spain	0	1	0	0	8	6	7	10	0	0	4		0	1	8	0	0	7
	Denmark	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	1	0
	Yugoslavia	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	12	0	1	0	3		0	0	0	0
	Israel	10	10	1	1	0	12	10	2	10	7	7	6	1	3		8	0	12
	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	5
	Ireland	1	0	2	7	1	0	6	5	5	0	0	3	5	8	3	0		3
	Germany	12	0	10	8	12	10	12	12	8	1	10	12	12	12	12	6	12
The table is ordered by appearance.