I rather enjoy the glorious spectacle of high camp that is Eurovision. Eurovision voting has always been rather suspect, with strong regional voting patterns. But the 2025 voting patterns seemed particularly odd, with jury scores seeming to have very little relation to the public scores. It was particularly noticeable that (IMHO, rather mediocre) Israel entry got only 60 jury votes, but a massive 297 public votes. Despite the widely condemned actions of the Netanyahu government in Gaza. Also, that the Swiss entry got 215 jury votes, but 0 public votes. I had a quick dig into the data using my data wrangling software, Easy Data Transform, to see what I could find.

I copied and pasted the results table from https://eurovisionworld.com/eurovision/2025 into Easy Data Transform. I had to do a bit of simple data wrangling to massage the data into the correct columns so I could calculate the Pearson correlation of the jury and public scores.

I repeated this for competitions back to 2016. Here are the correlation scores:

Year	Pearson correlation, jury vs public scores
2025	0.160
2024	0.627
2023	0.490
2022	0.467
2021	0.618
2020	No competition, due to COVID-19
2019	0.441
2018	0.255
2017	0.656
2016	0.447

It is noticeable that the correlation is significantly lower in 2025 than previous years (where 1.0 = perfect correlation, 0.0 = no correlation). The only other year getting anywhere close being 2018, where Sweden got 253 jury votes, but only 21 public votes.

Here are the 2025 results as an Excel scatter plot, with a regression line:

And here are the 2017 results, for comparison:

Of course, this doesn’t prove anything. But it does make wonder why there was such a big discrepancy this year.