Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016

The **Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016** was the fourteenth edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. It took place at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, Malta on 20 November 2016, Maltanese broadcaster Public Broadcasting Services was the host broadcaster for the event. The motto for the contest was  _"Embrace"_.

## Results

|scope="col"|Draw|scope="col"|Country|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Song|scope="col"|Language(s)|scope="col"|Place|scope="col"|Points|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Zena Donnelly|"Bríce ar Bhríce"|Irish, English|10|122|||||||||
||Anahit and Mary|"Tarber" <small>()</small>|Armenian, English|2|232|||||||||
||Klesta Qehaja|"Besoj"|Albanian, English|13|38|||||||||
||The Water of Life Project|"Water of Life"|Russian, English|4|202|||||||||
||Christina Magrin|"Parachute"|English|6|191|||||||||
||Lidia Ganeva|"Magical Day (Valsheben den)" <small>()</small>|Bulgarian, English|9|161|||||||||
||Martija Stanojković|"Love Will Lead Our Way (Ljubovta ne vodi)" <small>()</small>|Macedonian, English|12|41|||||||||
||Olivia Wieczorek|"Nie zapomnij"|Polish, English|11|60|||||||||
||Alexander Minyonok|"Musyka moikh pobed (Music is My Only Way)" <small>()</small>|Russian, English|7|177|||||||||
||Sofia Rol|"Planet Craves for Love"|Ukrainian, English|14|30|||||||||
||Fiamma Boccia|"Cara Mamma (Dear Mom)"|Italian, English|3|209|||||||||
||Dunja Jeličić|"U la la la" <small>()</small>|Serbian|17|14|||||||||
||Shir and Tim|"Follow My Heart"|Hebrew, English|15|27|||||||||
||Alexa Curtis|"We Are"|English|5|202|||||||||
||Kisses|"Kisses and Dancin'"|Dutch, English|8|174|||||||||
||George Michaelides|"Dance Floor"|Greek, English|16|27|||||||||
||Mariam Mamadashvili|"Mzeo" <small>()</small>|Georgian|1|239|||||||||

## Score sheet

|colspan="7"|Split results|||||
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||144||110||29|
||99||105||23|
||94||105||22|
||92||103||20|
||86||99||17|
||84||83||15|
||80||68||15|
||78||65||12|
||68||65||9|
||56||57||6|
||23||36||3|
||21||24||2|
||18||20||1|
||17||13||0|
||15||12||0|
||6||12||0|
||5||9||0|

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|colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left; background:#F2F2F2"|Voting procedure used:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Ireland|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|122|57|||1|1|**12**|3||||10|**12**|6||8||3||4||5||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Armenia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|232|110|4|||7|10|8|10||10|2||**12**|10|4|7|7|8|5|8|10||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Albania|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|38|13||||2|4||||2||5|7||1||2|||2|||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Russia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|202|105|7|6|4|||1|8|7|7|4|2|5|5|2|3|4|3|10|7|**12**||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Malta|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|191|105|1|4|7|3||5|6|1|8|5|10||1|**12**||10|7|2||4||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Bulgaria|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|161|68|3|8|6||6||7|**12**|5|3|7|1||7|6|1|6|8|6|1||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Macedonia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|41|24|||2||2||||||1|3|2|5|2|||||||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Poland|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|60|36||2||4|1||2||1||6||4||||1|||3||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Belarus|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|177|65|8|7||**12**|5|10|3|5|||||**12**|10|10|8|2|6|**12**|2||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Ukraine|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|30|12||3||||2||4|||||3||1||5|||||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Italy|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|209|103|10|1|8|5||6|**12**|6|4|6||2|7||8|5|4|**12**|10|||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Serbia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|14|9|||||||5|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Israel|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|27|20|||3|||||2||1|||||||||1|||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Australia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|202|99|5|5|10|6|8|4|1|10|6|7|8||||4||**12**|7|3|7||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Netherlands|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|174|65|6|10|5|8|7|7|4|3|3|8|4|4|6|3||6|10|3|4|8||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Cyprus|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|27|12|2|||||||||||8|||5|||||||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; font-weight:bold;"|Georgia|style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold;"|239|83|**12**|**12**|**12**|10|3|**12**||8|**12**|**12**|3|10|8|6|**12**|**12**||1|5|6||||||||||||||||||

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|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Ireland|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|122|56|9|||8|1|10|||7|2|7|8||1|6|2|5|||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Armenia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|232|99|23|7||6|10|7|**12**|8||**12**|5|10|10||5|6|4|8||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Albania|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|38|23|2||4|||||1|4||1||||2|1||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Russia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|202|68|29|8|3|||2|10|**12**|6|10|8|6|**12**|6||10|6|6||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Malta|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|191|80|6|5|6|**12**|8||5|10|10|5|3|**12**|4||10|3|7|5||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Bulgaria|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|161|78|15|6|5|5|3|5||6|1|8|2|3|3|8|3|7|3|||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Macedonia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|41|17|0|||7||1|||2|||2||3||8||1||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Poland|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|60|21|3||**12**|1||4|2|||7||||10||||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Belarus|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|177|92|20||8||**12**||8||||6|5|7|5|7|||7||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Ukraine|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|30|18|0|||||3|4|||4|||||1|||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Italy|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|209|84|22|10|1|10|2|**12**|7|7|**12**|6|||5|7|8|4|8|4||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Serbia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|14|5|0||||||3|3||||1||||||2||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Israel|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|27|6|1||3|||||5|||4|1||4||2||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Australia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|202|86|17|**12**||2|7|8|6|2|8|1|4|7|6|4||**12**|10|10||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Netherlands|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|174|94|15|4|7||6|6|1|4|||10||2|**12**|||1|**12**||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Cyprus|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|27|15|0|2|2||5|||||||||||||3||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; font-weight:bold;"|Georgia|style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold;"|239|144|12|3|10|4|4|||5|3|3|**12**||8|2|**12**|5|**12**|||||||||||||||||

### 12 points

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points awarded by each country's adult and kids jury. Countries in **bold** gave the maximum 24 points (12 points apiece from the adult and kids jury) to the specified entrant.

|scope="col"|N.|scope="col"|Contestant|scope="col"|Nation(s) giving 12 points|
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### Spokespersons

The first votes to be announced were those of the professional music industry jury, announced in the order of performance. The expert juries then announced their votes which had been cast live at the contest. Finally, the points awarded by the kids juries were announced as a total in order of the fewest to the greatest number of points received by each country. The spokespersons are shown below alongside each participating country.

1. Andrea Leddy
1. Mika
1. Juna Dizdari
1. Mikhail Smirnov
1. Gaia Cauchi
1. Milen Pavlov
1. Antonija Dimitrijevska
1. Nicoletta Włodarczyk
1. Ruslan Aslanov
1. Anna Trincher
1. Jade Scicluna
1. Tomislav Radojević
1. Itay Limor
1. Sebastian Hill
1. Anneloes
1. Loucas Demetriou
1. Elene Sturua
1. Christer Björkman, Mads Grimstad and Jedward

## Infobox (song contest)

- **name**: Junior Eurovision Song Contest
- **year**: 2016
- **theme**: _Embrace_
- **final**: 20 November 2016
- **exsupervisor**: Jon Ola Sand
- **exproducer**: Charles Dalli
- **director**: Gordon Bonello
- **host**: Public Broadcasting Services (PBS)
- **venue**: Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, Malta
- **vote**: Each country's adult & kid juries, as well as three expert jurors, award 12, 10, 8–1 points to their top 10 songs.
- **entries**: 17
- **winner**:
"Mzeo"
- **debut**: None
- **green**: y
- **yellow**: y