For some reason Russia and some other countries were kicking up a fuss about whether she should be allowed to participate but the voting has finished and now she's 'The Queen of Europe'.
So, as an intellectual exercise I thought I would compare how 'free' a country was with how many points they gave to Austria. I realise that there are other factors that are taken into consideration when countries vote (such as the likeability of the song for example) but i just thought I would compare.
Here's what I got. I have no conclusions; I just thought it was interesting.
Please remember that this is raw data that I was looking at while watching Netflix. I've no idea what percentage of each country watched Eurovision or which characteristics make you more likely to vote.
For example I would assume that very anti-EU British people wouldn't have voted and pro-EU people are represented by the Lib Dems who are a more open minded party than the Tories.
Notes:
Economic Freedom numbers came from The Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom
Social Freedom numbers came from Rahmey's The World Liberty Index
If chart isn't displaying properly here's the chart as an image:
*Before someone gets confused I changed the index numbers to a score out of 12 so I could use the same scale for everything.
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