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Nonstop, the group which represented Portugal at this year's Eurovision Song Contest, won the Barbara Dex Award, the fan award for the worst costume at the competition, by a landslide. Lordi comes second.

The top-10 of this year's Barbara Dex award:

1. Portugal – Nonstop – 196 votes
2. Finland – Lordi – 89 votes
3. Iceland – Silvia Night – 75 votes
4. Andorra – Jennifer – 72 votes
5. Poland – Ich Troje – 62 votes
6. Belarus – Polina Smolova – 57 votes
Greece – Anna Vissi – 57 votes
8. Turkey – Sibel Tuzun – 40 votes
9. Malta – Fabrizio Faniello – 35 votes
10. Russia – Dima Bilan – 26 votes

The award is named after Barbara Dex, who represented Belgium in the 1993 contest. She wore an "awfull, self-made dress that evening", the organisers of the annual award state at their website.

Six4one, Eddie Butler and Christine Guldbrandsen survived the vote; none of them got any votes for the Barbara Dex award.