International Broadcasts and Voting
The table below shows the order in which votes were cast during the 1968 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country. Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. Details of the commentators and the broadcasting station for which they represented are also included in the table below.
| Voting order | Country | Spokespersons | Commentator | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Portugal | Maria Manuela Furtado | Fialho Gouveia | RTP |
| 02 | Netherlands | Willem Duys | Elles Berger | Nederland 1 |
| 03 | Belgium | André Hagon | Janine Lambotte | RTB) |
| Herman Verelst | BRT | |||
| 04 | Austria | TBC | Emil Kollpacher | ORF |
| 05 | Luxembourg | TBC | Jacques Navadic | Télé-Luxembourg |
| 06 | Switzerland | Alexandre Burger | Theodor Haller | TV DRS |
| Georges Hardy | TSR) | |||
| Giovanni Bertini | TSI | |||
| 07 | Monaco | TBC | Pierre Tchernia | Télé Monte Carlo |
| 08 | Sweden | Edvard Matz | Christina Hansegård | Sveriges Radio-TV |
| 09 | Finland | Poppe Berg | Aarno Walli | TV-ohjelma 1 |
| 10 | France | TBC | Pierre Tchernia | Première Chaîne ORTF |
| 11 | Italy | Mike Bongiorno | Renato Tagliani | Secondo Programma |
| 12 | United Kingdom | Michael Aspel | No commentator | BBC1 |
| Pete Murray | BBC Radio 1 | |||
| 13 | Norway | Sverre Christophersen | Roald Øyen | NRK |
| 14 | Ireland | Gay Byrne | Brendan O'Reilly | RTÉ Television |
| Kevin Roche | Radio Éireann | |||
| 15 | Spain | Joaquín Prat | Federico Gallo | TVE1 |
| 16 | Germany | Hans-Otto Grünefeldt | Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach | ARD Deutsches Fernsehen |
| 17 | Yugoslavia | Snežana Lipkovska-Hadžinaumova | Miloje Orlović | Televizija Beograd |
| Mladen Delić | Televizija Zagreb | |||
| Tomaž Terček | Televizija Ljubljana |
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