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 

 Draw Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points 01  Zena Donnelly "Bríce ar Bhríce" Irish, English 10 122 02  Anahit and Mary "Tarber" () Armenian, English 2 232 03  Klesta Qehaja "Besoj" Albanian, English 13 38 04  The Water of Life Project "Water of Life" Russian, English 4 202 05  Christina Magrin "Parachute" English 6 191 06  Lidia Ganeva "Magical Day (Valsheben den)" () Bulgarian, English9161 07  Martija Stanojković "Love Will Lead Our Way (Ljubovta ne vodi)" () Macedonian, English 12 41 08  Olivia Wieczorek "Nie zapomnij" Polish, English 11 60 09  Alexander Minyonok "Musyka moikh pobed (Music is My Only Way)" () Russian, English 7 177 10  Sofia Rol "Planet Craves for Love" Ukrainian, English 14 30 11  Fiamma Boccia "Cara Mamma (Dear Mom)" Italian, English 3 209 12  Dunja Jeličić "U la la la" () Serbian 17 14 13   Shir and Tim "Follow My Heart" Hebrew, English 15 27 14  Alexa Curtis "We Are" English 5 202 15  Kisses "Kisses and Dancin'" Dutch, English 8 174 16  George Michaelides "Dance Floor" Greek, English 16 27 17  Mariam Mamadashvili "Mzeo" () Georgian 1 239

Score sheet
 Split results Place Adult Jury Kids Jury Expert Jury Country Points Country Points Country Points 1  144  110  29 2  99  105  23 3  94  105  22 4  92  103  20 5  86  99  17 6  84  83  15 7  80  68  15 8  78   65   12 9  68  65  9 10  56  57  6 11  23  36  3 12  21  24  2 13   18  20  1 14  17  13  0 15  15  12  0 16  6  12  0 17  5  9  0

+ Final voting results (Adult and expert juries) Voting procedure used: scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="row" rowspan="17"  Ireland 122  57     1  1  12  3        10  12  6    8    3    4    5  Armenia 232 110  4     7  10  8  10    10  2    12  10  4  7  7  8  5  8  10  Albania 38 13       2  4        2    5  7    1    2      2    Russia 202 105  7  6  4     1  8  7  7  4  2  5  5  2  3  4  3  10  7  12  Malta 191 105  1  4  7  3   5  6  1  8  5  10    1  12    10  7  2    4  Bulgaria 161 68  3  8  6    6   7  12  5  3  7  1    7  6  1  6  8  6  1  Macedonia 41 24      2    2           1  3  2  5  2           Poland 60 36    2    4  1    2   1    6    4        1      3  Belarus 177 65  8  7    12  5  10  3  5         12  10  10  8  2  6  12  2  Ukraine 30 12    3        2    4         3    1    5        Italy 209 103  10  1  8  5    6  12  6  4  6   2  7    8  5  4  12  10    Serbia 14 9              5                          Israel 27 20      3          2    1                 1    Australia 202 99  5  5  10  6  8  4  1  10  6  7  8       4    12  7  3  7   Netherlands 174 65  6  10  5  8  7  7  4  3  3  8  4  4  6  3    6  10  3  4  8  Cyprus 27 12  2                      8      5          Georgia 239 83  12  12  12  10  3  12    8  12  12  3  10  8  6  12  12   1  5  6 

+ Voting results (Kids juries) Voting procedure used: scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  rowspan="17"  Ireland 122  56  9     8  1  10      7  2  7  8    1  6  2  5   Armenia 232 99  23  7   6  10  7  12  8    12  5  10  10    5  6  4  8 Albania 38 23  2    4         1  4    1        2  1     Russia 202 68  29  8  3     2  10  12  6  10  8  6  12  6    10  6  6 Malta 191 80  6  5  6  12  8   5  10  10  5  3  12  4    10  3  7  5 Bulgaria 161 78  15  6  5  5  3  5   6  1  8  2  3  3  8  3  7  3   Macedonia 41 17  0      7    1     2      2    3    8    1 Poland 60 21  3    12  1    4  2     7        10         Belarus 177 92  20    8    12    8       6  5  7  5  7      7 Ukraine 30 18  0          3  4      4         1       Italy 209 84  22  10  1  10  2  12  7  7  12  6     5  7  8  4  8  4 Serbia 14 5  0            3  3        1           2 Israel 27 6  1    3          5      4  1   4    2   Australia 202 86  17  12    2  7  8  6  2  8  1  4  7  6  4   12  10  10 Netherlands 174 94  15  4  7    6  6  1  4      10    2  12      1  12 Cyprus 27 15  0  2  2    5                         3 Georgia 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.

+ 12 points awarded by adult juries N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 8   , , , , , , ,  2   ,    ,  1               

+ 12 points awarded by the kids juries N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 3   , ,  2   ,    ,    ,    ,    ,    ,  1      



 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.

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

 References 

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