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Eurovision 2015 votes DISQUALIFIED: Montenegro and Macedonia's results excluded after irregularities with voting ratio

14:43, Sunday, 24 May, 2015
Eurovision 2015 votes DISQUALIFIED: Montenegro and Macedonia's results excluded after irregularities with voting ratio

The Eurovision Song Contest 2015 has been hit by a voting scandal.

Montengro and Macedonia's voting results have been disqualified after it was discovered the two countries used votes from the televoting to account for 100% of the country's votes, rather than 50% with 50% coming from a jury, as is required.

The Eurovision Song Contest press office released the information in a statement after Sweden's victory was confirmed.

The statement reads: "The jury results of FYR Macedonia and Montenegro for the grand final have been excluded after consultation of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the contest's independent voting observer, and upon the decision of the executive supervisor and the chairman of the reference group.

"In both countries, televoting applied for 100%. The exclusion of two juries will be further discussed in the next reference group meeting in June."

Eurovision press office made no further comment on the news.

The results will not affect Sweden's Mans Zelmerlow winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2015.

Sweden's entry Heroes scored 365 points coming top of the leaderboard, beating Russia into second place.

They were the favourites going into the competition with 6/5 odds with Russia following close behind with 3/1.

But Mans Zelmerlow was crowned the champion on the night helping Sweden scoop the first place for the 60th diamond anniversary year.

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