The final result of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2016 revealed quite a surprise as the winner Sandjha only received 14,4% of the total votes cast, and that is something which have made the competitors react.

Let’s take things from the beginning. Contrary last year’s edition of UMK, when the jury had only 10% of the votes, in this years edition the vote was 50-50 between the jury and the televote. The jury and the public group each had available 430 points and these were allocated based on the percentages of votes It was clear that Sandhja was jury’s favourite. She won the 12 points from 5 of the 10 jury groups and scored 98 points from them. Mikael Saari who was second by the juries, got the maximum points from 3 jury groups and managed to earn 72 points, 26 points behind Sandhja. Saara Alto was third in juries with 67 points, getting the maximum points from 2 juries.

You can watch below the voting from the juries:

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury
1	Cristal Snow	Love Is Blind	41
2	Stella Christine	Ain’t Got Time for Boys	19
3	Annica Milán & Kimmo Blom	Good Enough	35
4	Eini	Draamaa	32
5	Barbe-Q-Barbies	Let Me Out	46
6	Tuuli Okkonen	Don’t Wake Me Up	20
7	Sandhja	Sing it Away	98
8	Saara Aalto	No Fear	67
9	Mikael Saari	On It Goes	72

In televoting things were completely different. The Finns could vote before and during the show. Sandhja who scored 98 points in the juries got only the 14,4% of the Finnish televoting. 14,4% of the total 430 points added another 62 points to her score. Saara Alto who won televoting, got 87 points from the public, from 20,2% of the total 430 public votes. Mikael Saari was second in televoting with 18,4%, or 79 from the total 430 points. In other words Sandhja won the UMK 2016 final due to the points she scored in the 10 jury groups.

Here are the voting details from televoting:

Draw	Artist	Song	Public Vote
			Before Show	During Show	Total Percentage	Points
1	Cristal Snow	Love Is Blind	12%	9%	9.1%	39
2	Stella Christine	Ain’t Got Time for Boys	6%	7%	6.5%	28
3	Annica Milán & Kimmo Blom	Good Enough	10%	11%	10.7%	46
4	Eini	Draamaa	4%	7%	6.7%	29
5	Barbe-Q-Barbies	Let Me Out	12%	9%	9.1%	39
6	Tuuli Okkonen	Don’t Wake Me Up	4%	5%	4.9%	21
7	Sandhja	Sing It Away	16%	14%	14.4%	62
8	Saara Aalto	No Fear	11%	21%	20.2%	87
9	Mikael Saari	On It Goes	25%	17%	18.4%	79

The combined results were as follows:

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Public Vote				Total	Place
				Before Show	During Show	Total Percentage	Points
1	Cristal Snow	“Love Is Blind”	41	12%	9%	9.1%	39	80	6
2	Stella Christine	“Ain’t Got Time for Boys”	19	6%	7%	6.5%	28	47	8
3	Annica Milán & Kimmo Blom	“Good Enough”	35	10%	11%	10.7%	46	81	5
4	Eini	“Draamaa”	32	4%	7%	6.7%	29	61	7
5	Barbe-Q-Barbies	“Let Me Out”	46	12%	9%	9.1%	39	85	4
6	Tuuli Okkonen	“Don’t Wake Me Up”	20	4%	5%	4.9%	21	41	9
7	Sandhja	“Sing It Away”	98	16%	14%	14.4%	62	160	1
8	Saara Aalto	“No Fear”	67	11%	21%	20.2%	87	154	2
9	Mikael Saari	“On It Goes”	72	25%	17%	18.4%	79	151	3

Below you can watch the song with which Sandhja won the UMK 2016: