The Eurovision Song Contest 1966 was the eleventh Eurovision and was held on 5 March 1966 in Luxembourg. With Josiane Shen as the presenter, the contest was won by Udo Jürgens who represented Austria, with his song "Merci Cherie".

The rule stating that a country could only sing in any of its national languages was originally created in this year. This was possibly created due to the 1965 Swedish entry, "Absent Friend" which was sung in English.

Contents

1 Interval Act 2 Results 3 Voting Structure 4 Score Sheet

Interval Act

The interval act was music by Les Haricots .

Results

Country (Language)	Artist(s)	Song (Translation)	Place	Points
Austria (German)	Udo Jürgens	Merci, Chérie	1	31
Belgium (French)	Tonia	Un peu de poivre, un peu de sel	4	14
Denmark (Danish)	Ulla Pia	Stop, ja stop - ja stop, mens legen er go	14	4
Finland (Finnish)	Ann Christine Nyström	Playboy	10	7
France (French)	Dominique Walter	Chez nous	16	1
Germany (German)	Margot Eskens	Die Zeiger der Uhr	10	7
Ireland (English)	Dickie Rock	Come Back to Stay	4	14
Italy (Italian)	Domenico Modugno	Dio, come ti amo	17	0
Luxembourg (French)	Michele Torr	Ce soir je t'attendais	10	7
Monaco (French)	Tereza	Bien plus fort	17	0
Netherlands (Dutch)	Milly Scott	Fernando en Philippo	15	2
Norway (Norwegian)	Åse Kleveland	Intet er nytt under solen	3	15
Portugal (Portuguese)	Madalena Iglesias	Ele e Ela	13	6
Spain (Spanish)	Raphael	Yo soy aquél	7	9
Sweden (Swedish)	Lill Lindfors & Svante Thuresson	Nygammal vals (eller hip man svinaherde)	2	16
Switzerland (French)	Madeleine Pascal	Ne vois-tu pas	6	12
United Kingdom (English)	Kenneth McKellar	A Man Without Love	9	8
Yugoslavia (Slovene)	Berta Ambro?	Brez besed	7	9
Venue: Grand Auditorium de RTL - Villa Louvigny , Luxembourg
The table is ordered alphabetically by country names.

Voting Structure

Each country had 10 jury members and each jury had 9 points to award. The song that got the most votes within the jury got 5 points, the song with the second most votes got 3 points and the song with the third most votes got 1 point. If only one song got every vote within the jury it would get 9 points and if only two songs were chosen, the song most voted for would get 6 points and the other song would get 3 points.

Score Sheet

		Juries
	Germany		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	1	0	0	0	0
	Denmark	0		0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Belgium	5	0		0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0
	Luxembourg	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
	Yugoslavia	3	0	0	0		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
	Norway	1	0	0	0	0		0	0	3	3	3	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
	Finland	0	3	0	0	0	3		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	Portugal	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Austria	0	0	5	5	5	0	0	1		0	1	3	5	3	3	0	0	0
	Sweden	0	5	0	0	0	5	5	0	0		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Spain	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	3
	Switzerland	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	0		3	0	0	0	3	0
	Monaco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0
	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0
	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		0	0	0
	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	1
	Ireland	0	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3		0
	United Kingdom	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
The table is ordered by appearance.