International Broadcasts and Voting
Unusually, a separate draw was made for the order in which the participating countries would vote. In all previous contests either nations had voted in the same running order as the song presentation or in the reverse of that order. It wouldn't be until 2006 that the voting sequence was decided by draw again. Finland, Norway, Switzerland and Italy drew the same position in both draws. Countries revealed their votes in the following order:
The table below shows the order in which votes were cast during the 1974 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country. Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. Details of the commentators and the broadcasting station for which they represented are also included in the table below.
| Voting order | Country | Spokesperson | Commentator | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Finland | Aarre Elo | Matti Paalosmaa | YLE TV1 |
| 02 | Luxembourg | TBC | Jacques Navadic | RTL Télé Luxembourg |
| 03 | Israel | Yitzhak Shim'oni | No commentator | Israeli Television |
| 04 | Norway | Sverre Christophersen | John Andreassen | NRK |
| Erik Heyerdahl | NRK P1 | |||
| 05 | United Kingdom | Colin-Ward Lewis | David Vine | BBC1 |
| Terry Wogan | BBC Radio 2 | |||
| 06 | Yugoslavia | Helga Vlahović | Milovan Ilić | TVB1 |
| Oliver Mlakar | TVZ 2 | |||
| Tomaž Terček | TVL1 | |||
| 07 | Greece | Irini Gavala | Mako Georgiadou | EIRT |
| 08 | Ireland | Brendan Balfe | Mike Murphy | RTÉ Television |
| Liam Devally | Radio Éireann | |||
| 09 | Germany | TBC | Werner Veigel | ARD Deutsches Fernsehen |
| 10 | Portugal | Henrique Mendes | Artur Agostinho | RTP1 |
| 11 | Netherlands | Dick van Bommel | Willem Duys | Nederland 2 |
| 12 | Sweden | Sven Lindahl | Johan Sandström | SR TV1 |
| Ursula Richter | SR P3 | |||
| 13 | Spain | Antolín García | José Luis Uribarri | TVE1 |
| 14 | Monaco | Sophie Hecquet | Pierre Tchernia | Télé Monte Carlo |
| 15 | Switzerland | Alexandre Burger | Theodor Haller | TV DRS |
| Georges Hardy | TSR | |||
| Giovanni Bertini | TSI | |||
| 16 | Belgium | André Hagon | Georges Désir | RTB |
| Herman Verelst | BRT | |||
| 17 | Italy | Anna Maria Gambineri | Rosanna Vaudetti | Secondo Programma |
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