Also read our analysis based on who qualified and who did not here and here.

The winners

Belgium won the first semi final with 176 points, clearly ahead of Greece, who achieved 133 points. This means Belgium got an average of 8.79 per country voting, which is the third highest number achieved by any semi final winner since 2004 behind Iceland and Norway last year, who got an average of 9.16 and 9.57 points respectively. Turkey won the second semi final with 118 points, which means an average of 6.56 points per country. This is the second lowest average number of points achieved by a semi final winner behind Romania's 6.18 in 2005. Turkey and Belgium were also the most sucessful qualifiers from their respective semi finals in the final finishing second and sixth respectively.

Statistics

Belgium and Turkey had both won the Eurovision Song Contest before, but neither of them had won a semi final before. Latvia finished last in a semi final for the second year in a row and Switzerland finished last in a semi final for the second time following 2004. Slovakia finished second last in a semi final for the second year in a row as well. However, a 16th place still means the country's best result to date.

12 points

The following countries got sets of full marks in the semi finals:

1st semi final Belgium – four times Russia – three times Estonia – twice Serbia – twice Albania – twice Bosnia & Herzegovina – once Malta – once Portugal – once Belarus – once Iceland – once

2nd semi final Azerbaijan – three times Armenia – twice Denmark – twice Sweden – twice Georgia – twice Turkey – twice Lithuania – once Israel – once Romania – once Ireland – once Cyprus – once Croatia – once

More than half of the competing countries in the first semi final got at least one set of 12 points. Despite getting the 12 only once less than winner Belgium, Russia finished only seventh in the semi final. Greece finished second in the semi final without getting any 12. In the second semi final, remarkable 12 of 17 songs got at least once 12.

Stay tuned for the upcoming parts of our results analysis. The parts are:

1. Numbers and statistics in the final
2. Numbers and statistics in the semi final
3. What if…?
4. Voting blocs, friendly neighbours & diasporas