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The Eurovision Song Contest 1970 was the fifteenth Eurovision and was held on March 21, 1970 in the Netherlands. With Willy Dobbe as the presenter, the contest was won by Dana who represented Ireland, with the song "All Kinds of Everything".

Due to the four-way tie in 1969, lots were drawn to choose which country would host this Eurovision. Finland, Norway, Portugal and Sweden boycotted this contest as they were not pleased with the result of 1969 and the voting structure.

To avoid an incident like in 1969, a tie rule was created. It stated that, if two or more songs gained the same number of points, each song would have to be performed again. After that every jury except the juries of the countries concerned would have a show of hands of which they thought was the best. If the countries tied again, then they would share first place.

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Results

Country	Artist(s)	Song	Place	Points
Belgium	Jean Vallee	Viens I'oublier (http://34sp.eurosong.net/~songthrush/web/bel70.html)	8	5
France	Guy Bonnet	Marie Blanche (http://34sp.eurosong.net/~songthrush/web/fra70.html)	4	8
Germany	Katja Ebstein	Wunder Gibt Es Immer (http://34sp.eurosong.net/~songthrush/web/ger70.html)	3	12
Ireland	Dana	All Kinds of Everything (http://34sp.eurosong.net/~songthrush/web/ire70.html)	1	32
Italy	Gianni Morandi	Occhi Di Ragazza (http://34sp.eurosong.net/~songthrush/web/ita70.html)	8	5
Luxembourg	David Alexander Winter	Je Suis Tombé Du Ciel (http://34sp.eurosong.net/~songthrush/web/lux70.html)	12	0
Monaco	Dominique Dussault	Marlène (http://34sp.eurosong.net/~songthrush/web/mon70.html)	8	5
Netherlands	Hearts of Soul	Waterman (http://34sp.eurosong.net/~songthrush/web/ned70.html)	7	7
Spain	Julio Iglesias	Gwendolyne (http://34sp.eurosong.net/~songthrush/web/spa70.html)	4	8
Switzerland	Henri Des	Retour (http://34sp.eurosong.net/~songthrush/web/swi70.html)	4	8
United Kingdom	Mary Hopkin	Knock Knock - Who's There? (http://34sp.eurosong.net/~songthrush/web/uk70.html)	2	26
Yugoslavia	Eva Sršen	Pridi, dala ti bom cvet (http://34sp.eurosong.net/~songthrush/web/yug70.html)	11	4
Venue: Rai Congrescentrum - Amsterdam, Netherlands
The table is ordered by the countries names.

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Voting Structure

Each Country had 10 Jury Members who each decided the best song and each awarded 1 point.

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Score Sheet

		Juries

	Netherlands		0	3	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	Switzerland	2		0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	2	1
	Italy	0	0		1	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0
	Yugoslavia	0	0	0		0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
	Belgium	0	0	0	0		3	0	1	0	0	0	1
	France	0	0	1	2	0		0	0	0	2	0	3
	United Kingdom	3	2	2	4	0	2		2	0	4	4	3
	Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0
	Spain	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	2		3	0	0
	Monaco	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	1		0	0
	Germany	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	4	1		2
	Ireland	5	6	0	0	9	1	4	2	3	0	2
The table is ordered by appearance.