| Eurovision Song Contest 1982 |
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| Final | 24 April 1982 |
| Presenter(s) | Jan Leeming |
| Conductor | Ronnie Hazlehurst |
| Host broadcaster |  BBC |
| Venue | Harrogate International
Centre Harrogate, United Kingdom |
| Winning song |  Germany"Ein bißchen Frieden" |
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| Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs | |
| Number of entries | 18 |
| Debuting countries | None |
| Returning countries | None |
| Withdrawing countries |  France Greece |
| Nul points |  Finland |
| Opening act | Introductions by Jan Leeming |
| Interval act | Pictures from Yorkshire and Castle Howard |
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1982 was the 27th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on April 24 1982 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The presenter was Jan Leeming. The opening of the contest showed a map of Europe, with the translation "Where is Harrogate?" popping up on-screen from the languages of the various countries. Then the map zoomed into Harrogate's location in Yorkshire, followed by an introduction video spotlighting the town.
The German entrant, Nicole, was the winner of this contest with the song, "Ein Bißchen Frieden". Germany got 1.61 times as many points as runner-up Israel, which was a record until 2009, when Norway got 1.78 times as many points as Iceland. The song also cemented Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger, the song's composers, into German Eurovision tradition, writing 18 Eurovision songs between them before and after "Ein Bißchen Frieden", 13 of which were for Germany.
Greece was due to participate in the contest with the song "Sarantapente Kopelies" performed by Themis Adamantidis. Although drawn to perform in second place, ERT withdrew the entry a few weeks before the contest.
In November 1981, France's national broadcaster, TF1, declined to enter the Eurovision Song Contest for 1982, with the head of entertainment, Pierre Bouteiller, saying, "The absence of talent and the mediocrity of the songs were where annoyance set in. [Eurovision is] a monument to inanity [sometimes translated as "drivel"]."[1] France Télévisions became the new broadcaster for Eurovision after public outcry, returning the country to the Contest in 1983.
This was the only time to date that Germany won the contest, although it has competed every year (with one exception) since the contest's inception.
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Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs.
Germany had the advantage of performing last. After coming second in 1980 and second in Dublin the year previously, Ralph Siegel and Bernd Meinunger took the first (and so far only) Grand Prix for Germany. The winner, Nicole, beat the nearest competition by 61 points and over 13 million West Germans watched her victory on television. Nicole went on to sing the reprise of her song in English, French and Dutch, as well as German, to the delight of the invited audience in Harrogate Conference Centre who stood to applaud her. The English version of her Eurovision winner, A Little Peace, subsequently shot to No1 in the UK Singles Chart.
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Portugal | 32 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | |
| Luxembourg | 78 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 8 | ||
| Norway | 40 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 10 | ||
| United Kingdom | 76 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | ||
| Turkey | 20 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Finland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Switzerland | 97 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Cyprus | 85 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 6 | ||
| Sweden | 67 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Austria | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Belgium | 96 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Spain | 52 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||
| Denmark | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Yugoslavia | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Israel | 100 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 12 | ||
| Netherlands | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Ireland | 49 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Germany | 161 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 12 | ||
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:
| N. | To | From |
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| 9 | Germany | Cyprus, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Israel |
| 2 | Cyprus | Netherlands, Norway |
| Israel | Finland, Germany | |
| Switzerland | Belgium, United Kingdom | |
| United Kingdom | Austria, Luxembourg | |
| 1 | Yugoslavia | Sweden |
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