Summary of Voting Systems Used
| 1959–1961 | Four expert juries in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Luleå. |
| 1962 | Postcard voting. |
| 1963 | As 1959-1961. |
| 1965-1969 | Regional juries in each of Sveriges Radio's regions. One point per jury member. |
| 1971 | Postcard voting in the three semifinals. Regional juries in each of Sveriges Radio's regions decided the final. |
| 1972-1973 | As 1965-1969. |
| 1974-1975 | Eleven regional juries, each with fifteen people. Each jury member awarded 3, 2 and 1 points to their three favourite songs. This led to ABBA winning with 302 points, the largest total ever (impossible under the current system.) In 1975 the number of jury members was reduced from fifteen to ten, and they were allowed to award five points in any manner they wished. |
| 1977-1980 | Regional juries. The positional voting system used in the Eurovision Song Contest at the time was used. Each jury awarded one to eight points, ten and finally twelve. |
| 1981-1988 | Regional juries. Juries each awarded 1, 2, 4, 6 and eight points to the five songs. In 1982 the number of contestants was increased to ten once again and a first round vote was used to reduce that number to five for the "super final". From 1984 to 1987 the juries were sorted by age, not region, but the voting system remained the same. Regional juries returned in 1988. |
| 1989-1990 | As 1977-1980. |
| 1991-1992 | As 1981-1988 with regional juries. |
| 1993 | A regional televote in which the regions' points were given in the same manner as the previous two competitions: 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8. |
| 1994-1996 | As 1981-1988 with regional juries. |
| 1997 | Regional juries. Juries awarded 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 points to their top seven songs. |
| 1998 | As 1981-1988 with regional juries. |
| 1999-2008 | Juries voted as 1997. Televoting points are given by multiplying the juries' points allocations (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12) by the total number of juries - so with eleven juries, 11, 22, 44, 66, 88, 110 and 132 - to give a 50:50 jury-public points split |
| 2009 | As 1999-2008 but with the addition of a twelfth 'international' jury, and with televoting points factored up accordingly. |
| 2010 | As 1999-2008 with eleven juries, but only five from Swedish regions; the other six from other individual European countries. |
| 2011–present | Eleven international juries give points as above; televoting now gives respective shares of 473 points (the total of all the juries) based on percentage of total vote, e.g. a song that gets 10% of the televoting would receive 48 points (47.3). |
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