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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009
"For The Joy Of People"
Dates
Final 21 November 2009
Host
Venue Palace of Sports, Kiev, Ukraine
Presenter(s) Ani Lorak
Timur Miroshnichenko
Dmytro Borodin (Green Room)
Directed by Sven Stojanovic
Executive supervisor Svante Stockselius
Host broadcaster National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU)
Participants
Number of entries 13
Debuting countries None
Returning countries  Sweden
Non-returning countries  Bulgaria
 Greece
 Lithuania
Vote
Voting system Citizens of each participating country vote by telephone and SMS message, which counts for 50%. Each country's 10 favourites are awarded 1 to 8, 10 and 12 points based on the number of votes. Results 1-5 are automatically displayed on-screen, then each country announces 6-8, 10 and 12 points. A jury in each country also has a 50% say in the outcome.
Winning song  Netherlands
"Click Clack"
2008 ← Junior Eurovision Song Contest → 2010

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the seventh edition of Junior Eurovision Song Contest and took place in Kiev, Ukraine. It was scheduled for 21 November. 13 countries were confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to compete in the Contest. The contest was won by Ralf Mackenbach for the Netherlands with the song "Click Clack". At the age of 14, he is the oldest person to win the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in its 7 year History. Luara Hayrapetyan achieved Armenia another second place. Ekaterina Ryabova also took second place for Russia.

Final

Each country decided their votes through a 50% jury and 50% televoting system which decided their top ten songs using the points 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. Sweden have only 100% jury.

Draw Country Language Artist Song English translation Place Points
01  Sweden Swedish Mimmi Sandén "Du" You 6 68
02  Russia Russian Ekaterina Ryabova "Malenkiy prints" (Маленький принц) The little prince 2 116
03  Armenia Armenian Luara Hayrapetyan "Barcelona" (Բարսելոնա) - 2 116
04  Romania Romanian Ioana Anuța "Ai puterea în mâna ta" You got the power in hand 13 19
05  Serbia Serbian Ništa Lično "Onaj pravi" (Онаj прави) The right one 10 34
06  Georgia Georgian Group Princesses "Lurji prinveli" (ლურჯი ფრინველი) The blue bird 6 68
07  Netherlands Dutch, English Ralf Mackenbach "Click Clack" - 1 121
08  Cyprus Greek Rafaella Kosta "Thalassa, ilios, aeras, fotia"
(Θάλασσα, ήλιος, αέρας, φωτιά)
Sea, sun, air, fire 11 32
09  Malta English Francesca & Mikaela "Double Trouble" - 8 55
10  Ukraine Ukrainian Andranik Alexanyan "Try topoli, try surmy" (Три тополі, три сурми) Three poplars, three trumpets 5 89
11  Belgium Dutch Laura Omloop "Zo verliefd (Yodelo)" So in love 4 113
12  Belarus Russian Yuriy Demidovich "Volshebniy krolik" (Волшебный кролик) The magic rabbit 9 48
13  Macedonia Macedonian Sara Markovska "Za ljubovta" (За љубовта) For love 12 31
  • The rules says that the participants must sing in one of their national languages, however they are permitted to have a few lines in a different language - as seen in the winning entry.

Score sheet

Results
Total Score Sweden Russia Armenia Romania Serbia Georgia (country) Netherlands Cyprus Malta Ukraine Belgium Belarus North Macedonia
Contestants Sweden 68 4 5 2 5 3 6 2 5 4 7 5 8
Russia 116 6 10 8 10 7 7 10 7 12 8 12 7
Armenia 116 10 12 6 7 12 10 12 6 10 10 8 1
Romania 19 1 1 2 3
Serbia 34 2 1 3 3 2 3 3 1 4
Georgia 68 3 5 6 7 1 4 7 10 6 5 2
Netherlands 121 12 8 8 12 8 8 8 8 8 12 7 10
Cyprus 32 7 3 2 1 1 1 2 3
Malta 55 2 4 4 4 4 8 4 1 6 4 2
Ukraine 89 4 7 12 10 2 10 5 5 4 3 10 5
Belgium 113 8 10 7 5 12 6 12 6 12 5 6 12
Belarus 48 6 1 3 5 3 1 7 4 6
Macedonia 31 5 6 2 3 2 1
All countries automatically receive 12 points

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

N. Recipient nation Voting nation
4  Belgium Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Serbia
3  Netherlands Belgium, Romania, Sweden
 Armenia Cyprus, Georgia, Russia
2  Russia Belarus, Ukraine
1  Ukraine Armenia
  • All countries were given 12 points at the start of voting. This is so no country gets nul points.

International broadcasts

Commentators

  •  Armenia - Gohar Gasparyan, Tigran Danirlyan
  •  Netherlands - Sipke Jan Bousema
  •  Ukraine - Pavlo Shylko (DJ Pasha)
  •  Belgium - André Vermeulen (VRT), Maureen Louys and Jean-Louis Lahaye (RTBF)
  •  Russia - Olga Shelest

Spokespersons

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See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión Junior 2009 para niños

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