Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023

The **Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023** was the twenty-first edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. It took place at Palais Nikaïa, Nice, France on 26 November 2023, French broadcaster France Télévisions was the host broadcaster for the event. The motto for the contest was _"Heroes"_.

## List of participating countries

16 countries competed in the 2023 edition. Azerbaijan, Bulgaria and Russia was absent from the contest.

|scope="col"|Country|scope="col"|Broadcaster|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Song|scope="col"|Language|scope="col"|Songwriter(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|RTSH|Viola Gjyzeli|""|Albanian|||||||||
|AMPTV|Yan Girls|"Do It My Way"|Armenian, English|||||||||
|ERR|Arhanna|""|Estonian, English|||||||||
||Zoé Clauzure|""|French|||||||||
|GPB|Anastasia and Ranina|"Over the Sky"|Georgian, English|||||||||
|NDR/Kika|Fia|""|German|||||||||
|TG4|Jessica McKean|""|Irish|||||||||
|RAI|Melissa and Ranya|""|Italian, English|||||||||
|PBS|Yulan|"Stronger"|English|||||||||
|AVROTROS||"Holding On to You"|Dutch, English|Robert Dorn||||||||
|MRT||""|Macedonian, English|||||||||
|TVP|Maja Krzyżewska|"I Just Need a Friend"|Polish, English|||||||||
|RTP|Júlia Machado|"Where I Belong"|Portuguese,  English|||||||||
|RTVE|Sandra Valero|"Loviu"|Spanish|||||||||
|UA:PBC|Anastasia Dymyd|""|Ukrainian, English|Svitlana Tarabarova||||||||
|BBC|Stand Uniqu3|"Back to Life"|English|||||||||

### Returning artists

Sophie Lennon, who represented Ireland in , joined Jessica McKean on stage.

### Other countries

The following countries confirmed they would not participate in the event; , ,  (VRT and RTBF), , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  and , as well as associate members in  and .

- Notes

## Detailed voting results

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|bgcolor="gold"||bgcolor="gold"|228|bgcolor="gold"||bgcolor="gold"|136|bgcolor="gold"||bgcolor="gold"|92|
||201||116||86|||||||
||180||115||83|||||||
||160||102||74|||||||
||128||70||70|||||||
||124||69||64|||||||
||122||52||58|||||||
||115||51||55|||||||
||107||45||53|||||||
||94||37|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|45|||||
||81||37|||||||||
||76||33||44|||||||
||75||30|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|43|||||
||74||21|||||||||
||49||8||39|||||||
||42||6||34|||||||

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### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received from each country's professional juries.

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## Infobox (song contest)

- **name**: Junior Eurovision Song Contest
- **year**: 2023
- **final**: 26 November 2023
- **theme**: _Heroes_
- **host**: France Télévisions
- **venue**: Palais Nikaïa, Nice, France
- **exsupervisor**: Martin Österdahl
- **vote**: The professional jury of each country awards a set of 12, 10, 8–1 points to 10 songs. Viewers around the world vote for 3 songs, and their votes are distributed proportionally. The votes of the jury and the audience make up 50% of all votes.
- **map jesc**: Y
- **exproducer**: Alexandra Redde-Amiel
- **prev year**: 2022
- **entries**: 16
- **winner**:
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