LTV releases complete televoting results

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Latvian broadcaster LTV registered 20,406 votes after this year's Eurovision Song Contest semifinal and 65,190 after the final. All together, a total amount of 85,596 votes came in.

Semifinal
In the semifinal televote, all countries that received points from Latvia got more than 1,000 phone calls.

� Estonia – 12 points – 2,702 votes
� Moldova – 10 points – 1,832 votes
� Lithuania – 8 points – 1,797 votes
� Switzerland – 7 points – 1,702 votes
� Norway – 6 points – 1,537 votes
� Hungary – 5 points – 1,274 votes
� Croatia – 4 points – 1,274 votes
� Belarus – 3 points – 1,242 votes
� Denmark – 2 points – 1,157 votes
� Poland – 1 point – 1,017 votes

Portugal and Andorra received the lowest amount of phone calls. Remarkable are the 1,274 televotes that came in for Hungary ánd Croatia. On the question why Hungary received 5 points and Croatia 4, LTV forwared us to Digame, the German company responsible for the televoting management. We are awaiting their reply.

Final
The Latvian 12 points went to Switzerland, the only country that received more than 10,000 phone calls.

� Switzerland – 12 points – 10,105 votes
� Russia – 10 points – 7,479 votes
� Moldova – 8 points – 7,085 votes
� Croatia – 7 points – 5,635 votes
� Norway – 6 points – 4,826 votes
� Malta – 5 points – 4,599 votes
� Denmark – 4 points – 4,028 votes
� Hungary – 3 points – 2,807 votes
� Israel – 2 points – 2,738 votes
� Serbia & Montenegro – 1 point – 2,571 votes

Albania received the lowest amount of televotes; only 230.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, LTV removed the televoting results from its website. We are awaiting more information.