OGAE Poll 2023: Finland keeps its 12 points streak thanks to Austria and Andorra

Käärijä performing at Finland's national final, UMK. Image: Miikka Varila

The OGAE Poll 2023 continues day by day and the latest voters are OGAE Austria and OGAE Andorra. Both national OGAE clubs agree on their winner: it is Käärijä representing Finland with Cha Cha Cha.

It started three weeks ago and as of today, 17 countries awarded their points. Each of the national OGAE club reveals their points from 1 to 12, Eurovision style, in order to ultimately determine the grand winner of the 2023 OGAE Poll.

And today’s votes from the OGAE Poll 2023 are bringing good luck to Käärijä as he receives two sets of 12 points from OGAE Austria and OGAE Andorra. The two national OGAE clubs decided to award their top score to Finland’s Eurovision 2023 representative.

“Cha Cha Cha”, more like “12 12 12”

The battle of the 12 points is intense between Sweden and Finland at this year’s OGAE Poll, Sweden received the top score a total of 10 times and Finland received it 6 times (including today’s votes). France is, for now, the only other country to have received 12 points once from OGAE Switzerland.

Results from Austria

Here is the full voting of OGAE Austria:

Finland 🇫🇮 – 12 points
Sweden 🇸🇪 – 10 points
France 🇫🇷 – 8 points
Norway 🇳🇴 – 7 points
Italy 🇮🇹 – 6 points
Belgium 🇧🇪 – 5 points
United Kingdom 🇬🇧 – 4 points
Moldova 🇲🇩 – 3 points
Czechia 🇨🇿 – 2 points
Israel 🇮🇱 – 1 point

120 people voted in the Austrian OGAE club, and OGAE Austria is the 17th national club to vote in this year’s poll.

Results from Andorra

Here is the full voting of OGAE Andorra:

Finland 🇫🇮 – 12 points
Spain 🇪🇸 – 10 points
Sweden 🇸🇪 – 8 points
France 🇫🇷 – 7 points
United Kingdom 🇬🇧 – 6 points
Italy 🇮🇹 – 5 points
Austria 🇦🇹 – 4 points
Slovenia 🇸🇮 – 3 points
Norway 🇳🇴 – 2 points
Israel 🇮🇱 – 1 point

37 people voted in the Andorran OGAE club, and OGAE Andorra is the 16th national club to vote in this year’s poll.

As of now, Sweden is still in the lead with 183 points but Finland’s Käärijä is getting close to Loreen with 167 points. There’s now only a gap of 16 points between the two Nordic countries. France keeps its 3rd spot in the ranking with 120 points and Norway remains 4th with 100 points.

A total of 1516 people voted so far, but the full results are yet to be known so that we have a winner. These full results will be known around early May, just before the Eurovision Song Contest’s live shows start in Liverpool on May 9.

Last year, more than 3,500 people voted across 43 OGAE national clubs, and Sweden was the winner of the OGAE Poll 2022 with “Hold Me Closer” by Cornelia Jakobs. As of today, Sweden may be up for a second victory in a row, but Finland could steal the win!

Here are the OGAE clubs who have voted so far:

Source: OGAE International

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