Six weeks of competition, 12 finalists but only 1 winner! Frans has won Melodifesitvalen 2016 and will represent the host nation of Sweden at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest!

This evening saw the 12 national selection finalists perform their bidding Eurovision entries for a final time on the Melodifestivalen stage, with the final event being hosted at the Friends Arena in Stockholm.

Tonight’s winner was decided via a 50/50 combined international jury and national televote. The international jury was made up of members from 11 of this year’s competing Eurovision nations; Australia, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Slovenia.

With Oscar Zia leading with the jury, it was down to the public televote to decide the remaining 50% of the final votes.The final votes went as follows:

Place	Entry	Jury vote	Televote	Final points
1	Frans – If I were sorry	88	68	156
2	Oscar Zia – Human	89	43	132
3	Ace Wilder – Don’t worry	83	35	118
4	Wiktoria – Save me	69	45	114
5	Robin Bengtsson – Constellation prize	40	43	83
6	Molly Sandén – Youniverse	39	37	76
7	Lisa Ajax – My heart wants me dead	23	33	56
8	Panetoz – Håll om mig hårt	14	39	53
9	SaRaha – Kizunguzungu	11	36	47
10	Boris René – Put your love on me	6	35	41
11	David Lindgren – We are your tomorrow	11	28	39
12	Samir & Viktor – Bada nakna	0	31	31

Receiving the highest amount of points in total following the combination of jury and public votes, Frans was crowned the winner of Melodifestivalen 2016 and will go on to represent Sweden at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. Frans will compete in the grand final of this year’s contest on the 14 May with his entry, If I were sorry.

What do you think of Sweden’s 2016 Eurovision entry? Could Frans bring Sweden their seventh victory?

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