The United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden and Serbia rounded out the top five, with the United Kingdom and Spain achieving their best results since 1998 and 1995 respectively.
The winner was Ukraine with the song "Stefania", performed by Kalush Orchestra and written by the band's members Ivan Klymenko, Oleh Psiuk, Tymofii Muzychuk, Vitalii Duzhyk and Ihor Didenchuk. Ukraine's 439 points received from the televote in the final are the most points received in the televoting in the contest's history to date.
Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti also appeared in a pre-recorded message from the International Space Station.
During the announcement of the jury votes in the final, Azerbaijan, Romania and Georgia had their votes announced by Martin Österdahl, the contest's executive supervisor. This was due to technical difficulties in establishing connection with those countries' designated spokespersons. The spokespersons who would have announced them were Narmin Salmanova, Eda Marcus and Helen Kalandadze respectively.