Eurovision Song Contest 1975
| Eurovision Song Contest 1975 | |
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| Dates | |
| Final | 22 March 1975 |
| Host | |
| Venue |
, Sweden |
| Presenter(s) | Karin Falck |
| Conductor | Mats Olsson |
| Executive supervisor | Clifford Brown |
| Host broadcaster | Sveriges Radio (SR) |
| Interval act | The World of John Bauer |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 19 |
| Debuting countries |
 Turkey
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| Returning countries | |
| Withdrawing countries |
 Greece
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| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs |
| Nul points | None |
| Winning song |
 Netherlands"Ding-a-dong" |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1975 was the 20th edition of the contest hosted by SR and held in , Sweden. The arena for the event was the newly built in Älvsjö in southern . ABBA's victory in Brighton the previous year gave Sweden the right to host the contest for the first time. The Contest was won by Teach-In, who sang "Ding-a-dong" in English, representing the Netherlands.
The contest took place in , the capital and largest city of Sweden, which has long been one of the country's cultural, media, political, and economic centres as well as the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. The venue for the contest was Stockholmsmässan (or Stockholm International Fairs in English). The main building is in Älvsjö – a southern suburb of for which the building got its nickname. It was constructed in 1971 and holds 4,000 people.
This year a new scoring system was implemented. Each country would be represented by a jury of 11 members, at least half of whom had to be under the age of 26. Each jury member had to award every song a mark of between 1 and 5 points, but could not vote for their own nation's entry. The votes were cast immediately after the song was performed and collected by the adjudicator straight away. After the last song was performed, the jury secretary added up all the votes cast and awarded 12 points to the song with the highest score, 10 to the second highest score, then 8 to the third, 7 to the fourth, 6 to the fifth and so forth down to 1 point for the song ranked 10th. The jury spokesperson then announced the ten scores in the order the songs were presented when called upon by the hostess. The hostess Karin Falck several times confused the new system with questions like "How much is seven in France?" Unlike today, the points were not given in order (from 1 up to 12), but in the order the songs were performed. The current procedure of announcing the scores in ascending order, beginning with 1 point, was not established until 1980. This scoring system remained in use until 1996, although the number of jurors varied (it was 11 from 1975 to 1987, and 16 from 1988 to 1997) and the scores they awarded each song increased to 10 rather than 5. In from 1997, some juries were replaced by televotes and from 1998, all countries were encouraged to televote when possible. In the 2009 final and the 2010 semi-finals, the juries were reintroduced to provide 50% of the scores. Despite these changes in how the points were decided, the 'douze points' scoring system remained in place from 1975-2015. In 2016 it was altered to each country providing two separate sets of points, however, modelled after the former model.
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