The Eurovision Song Contest 1985 was the 30th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest and was held in the Scandinavium indoor arena in Gothenburg, Sweden. The presenter of the contest was Lill Lindfors. The contest was won by Bobbysocks!, representing Norway with the song "La det swinge".
Location[]
Scandinavium - host venue of the 1985 contest.
Lill Lindfors; presenter of the 1985 Eurovision Song Contest.
Format[]
Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point(s) for their top ten songs. The presenter phoned each delegation for their votes.
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Entries[]
List of the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 entries in running order:
| 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 |
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 Ireland
Artist: Maria Christian Song: "Wait Until the Weekend Comes" Language: English |
 Finland
Artist: Sonja Lumme Song: "Eläköön elämä" Language: Finnish |
 Cyprus
Artist: Lia Vissi Song: "To katalava arga" Language: Greek |
 Denmark
Artist: Hot Eyes Song: "Sku' du spørg' fra no'en" Language: Danish |
| 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 |
 Spain
Artist: Paloma San Basilio Song: "La fiesta terminó" Language: Spanish |
 France
Artist: Roger Bens Song: "Femme dans ses rêves aussi" Language: French |
 Turkey
Artist: MFÖ Song: "Didai didai dai" Language: Turkish |
 Belgium
Artist: Linda Lepomme Song: "Laat me nu gaan" Language: Dutch |
| 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
 Portugal
Artist: Adelaide Song: "Penso em ti, eu sei" Language: Portuguese |
 Germany
Artist: Wind Song: "Für alle" Language: German |
 Israel
Artist: Izhar Cohen Song: "Olé, Olé" Language: Hebrew |
 Italy
Artist: Al Bano and Romina Power Song: "Magic Oh Magic" Language: Italian |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
 Norway
Artist: Bobbysocks! Song: "La det swinge" Language: Norwegien |
 United Kingdom
Artist: Vikki Song: "Love Is..." Language: English |
 Switzerland
Artist: Mariella Farré and Pino Gasparini Song: "Piano, piano" Language: German |
 Sweden
Artist: Kikki Danielsson Song: "Bra vibrationer" Language: Swedish |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | |
 Austria
Artist: Gary Lux Song: "Kinder dieser Welt" Language: German |
 Luxembourg
Artist: Margo, Franck Olivier, Diane Solomon, Ireen Sheer, Malcolm Roberts and Chris Roberts Song: "Children, Kinder, Enfants" Language: French |
 Greece
Artist: Takis Biniaris Song: "Miazoume" Language: Greek |
Conductors[]
Each performance had a conductor who directed the orchestra. Swedish host conductor Curt-Eric Holmquist also conducted the Belgian entry and Greek conductor Haris Andreadis also conducted the Cypriot entry:
Results[]
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| Ireland | 91 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | |||
| Finland | 58 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 10 | |||||||||
| Cyprus | 15 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |||||||||||||||
| Denmark | 41 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Spain | 36 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| France | 56 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 | |||||||
| Turkey | 36 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 12 | |||||||||||
| Belgium | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Portugal | 9 | 2 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Germany | 105 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 10 | ||||||
| Israel | 93 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | ||||
| Italy | 78 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 12 | ||||||||
| Norway | 123 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 1 | ||||
| United Kingdom | 100 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 4 | ||
| Switzerland | 39 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Sweden | 103 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Austria | 60 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||||||
| Luxembourg | 37 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Greece | 15 | 8 | 7 |
