Sweden: Full results of “Melodifestivalen 2018”

Last Saturday, Benjamin Ingrosso was crowned winner of the “Melodifestivalen 2018” with his song “Dance You Off”, which means that he will take up Sweden’s representation at the 63rd Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon.

Today, SVT released the full results of the contest, with interesting and subversive details of how each contestant went.

1st Semi Final – Karlstad (6,617,451 votes cast):

Artist	Song	Votes			Place	Result
Artist	Song	Round 1	Round 2	Total	Place	Result
Benjamin Ingrosso	Dance You Off	1 184 738	110 417	1 295 155	1	Final
John Lundvik	My Turn	1 048 501	103 632	1 152 133	2	Final
Renaida	All the Feels	1 037 549	89 358	1 126 907	3	Andra Chansen
Sigrid Bernson	Patrick Swayze	951 260	92 476	1 043 736	4	Andra Chansen
Edward Blom	Livet på en pinne	801 616	63 826	865 442	5	Out
Kamferdrops	Solen lever kvar hos dig	555 778	—	555 778	6	Out
Kikki Danielsson	Osby Tennessee	555 466	—	555 466	7	Out

Benjamin Ingrosso won the 1st place,but John Lunvik was not far behind him.
Renaida won the most votes from all entries made by third parties to the Semifinal.
Four entries accounted more than one million votes.
Only 312 votes saved Kamferdrops from the last place.

Semifinal 2 – Gothenburg (5,880,237 votes were cast ):

Artist	Song	Votes			Place	Result
Artist	Song	Round 1	Round 2	Total	Place	Result
Samir & Viktor	Shuffla	1 166 434	70 629	1 237 063	1	Final
LIAMOO	Last Breath	1 051 127	100 136	1 151 263	2	Final
Margaret	In My Cabana	805 016	60 198	865 214	3	Andra Chansen
Mimi Werner	Songburning	744 801	67 923	812 724	4	Andra Chansen
Ida Redig	Allting som vi sa	721 817	57 707	779 524	5	Out
Stiko Per Larsson	Titta vi flyger	529 194	—	529 194	6	Out
Jonas Gardell	Det finns en väg	490 911	—	490 911	7	Out

Samir & Viktor took the highest percentage of the votes of all Semi-finals and received over 21% of the votes in the 2nd Semi-Final.
Jonas Gardell received the lowest percentage of votes in all Semi-Finals in total, with 8.37%.

Semifinal 3 – Malmö (4,800,971 votes were cast )

Artist	Song	Votes			Place	Result
Artist	Song	Round 1	Round 2	Total	Place	Result
Martin Almgren	A Bitter Lullaby	850 684	93 848	944 532	1	Final
Jessica Andersson	Party Voice	788 787	102 041	890 828	2	Final
Méndez	Everyday	701 557	91 553	793 110	3	Andra Chansen
Moncho	Cuba Libre	569 210	46 859	616 069	4	Andra Chansen
Kalle Moraeus & Orsa Spelmän	Min dröm	537 891	58 589	596 480	5	Out
Dotter	Cry	511 718	—	511 718	6	Out
Barbi Escobar	Stark	426 768	—	426 768	7	Out

The difference between Kalle Moraues & Orsa Spelmän and Dotter was the shortest among any finalist who finished fifth and second in the first round.
Barbi Escobar received the lowest amount of votes from all the semifinals

Semifinal 4 – Örnsköldsvik (4,866,749 votes were cast):

Artist	Song	Votes			Place	Result
Artist	Song	Round 1	Round 2	Total	Place	Result
Mariette	For You	816 976	84 609	901 585	1	Final
Rolandz	Fuldans	737 996	80 005	818 001	2	Final
Felix Sandman	Every Single Day	693 167	70 118	763 285	3	Andra Chansen
Olivia Eliasson	Never Learn	601 932	46 425	648 357	4	Andra Chansen
Elias Abbas	Mitt paradis	605 644	39 845	645 489	5	Out
Emmi Christensson	Icarus	541 494	—	541 494	6	Out
Felicia Olsson	Break That Chain	536 504	—	536 504	7	Out

Felicia Olsson received the highest percentage of votes from the last few in the semifinals.
Elias Abbas won more votes in the first round than Olivia Eliasson, who managed to pass the Second Chance after receiving more votes in the second round.
Rolandz received the smallest percentage of votes from all entries that went straight to the Finals.

Second Chance – Linköping (6,007,515 votes were cast):

Duel	Draw	Artist	Song	Votes	Result
I	1	Margaret	In My Cabana	877 351	Final
I	2	Moncho	Cuba Libre	602 941	Out
II	1	Renaida	All the Feels	884 188	Final
II	2	Olivia Eliasson	Never Learn	682 801	Out
III	1	Felix Sandman	Every Single Day	868 152	Final
III	2	Mimi Werner	Songburning	583 305	Out
IV	2	Sigrid Bernson	Patrick Swayze	741 226	Out
IV	1	Méndez	Everyday	767 552	Final

Margaret received the highest percentage of all duels.
Felix Sandman won his duel with Mimi Werner with the biggest margin.
The duel between Sigrid Bernson and Méndez was the closest, with Sigrid taking 49.13% of the votes, and Méndez 50.87%.

Final – Stockholm (13,993,975 votes were cast throughout the show, which smashed the previous record of 13,566,778 votes in 2017):

Artist	Song	Juries	Televote/SMS/App			Total	Place
Artist	Song	Juries	Votes	Percentage	Points	Total	Place
Benjamin Ingrosso	Dance You Off	114	1,469,808	10.5%	67	181	1
Felix Sandman	Every Single Day	94	1,401,767	10.0%	64	158	2
John Lundvik	My Turn	66	1,349,766	9.6%	62	128	3
Samir & Viktor	Shuffla	54	1,314,016	9.4%	60	114	4
Mariette	For You	64	1,080,536	7.7%	49	113	5
LIAMOO	Last Breath	52	1,171,247	8.4%	53	105	6
Margaret	In My Cabana	62	904,893	6.5%	41	103	7
Martin Almgren	A Bitter Lullaby	43	899,049	6.4%	41	84	8
Renaida	All the Feels	30	1,116,740	8.0%	51	81	9
Rolandz	Fuldans	24	1,124,955	8.0%	51	75	10
Jessica Andersson	Party Voice	33	809,292	5.8%	37	70	11
Méndez	Everyday	2	1,351,896	9.7%	62	64	12

Detailed Jury Points

Song												Total
Everyday						1				1		2
All the Feels	3				2	6			8	8	3	30
A Bitter Lullaby	2	8	3	2		7	6	6	1	6	2	43
My Turn	7	3	8	6	4	8	10	10	5	4	1	66
Party Voice	1	5	1	7	3	3	4	3			6	33
Last Breath	8	4	4	1	5	2	2	5	7	7	7	52
Shuffla	5	6	5	10	6		1	12	4		5	54
For You	4	7	6	5	8	5	7	2	10	2	8	64
Every Single Day	6	1	12	8	10	10	12	7	6	12	10	94
In My Cabana	12	10	7	3	7		5	8	3	3	4	62
Dance You Off	10	12	10	12	12	12	8	4	12	10	12	114
Fuldans		2	2	4	1	4	3	1	2	5		24