Contest year
1956 Eurovision Song Contest
- Host City
- Lugano, Switzerland
- Venue
- Teatro Kursaal
- Final Date
- May 24, 1956
- Entries
- 14
- The inaugural contest introduced several one-off rules, notably allowing each country to enter two songs, holding jury voting in secret, and permitting jurors to vote for their own country.
- Luxembourg’s jury could not travel to Lugano, so two Swiss nationals voted in their place.
- Only the winner was announced and the detailed results were never retained, leaving the full ranking unknown.
- A technical fault interrupted TV pictures during France’s Mathé Altéry in several countries, and no complete video recording of the show survives.
- via Wikipedia
Final Results
| Country | Artist · Song | Pos | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | Lys Assia Refrain | — | — |
| Switzerland | Lys Assia Das alte Karussell | — | — |
 Germany | Freddy Quinn So geht das jede Nacht | — | — |
| Germany | Walter Andreas Schwarz Im Wartesaal zum großen Glück | — | — |
 France | Dany Dauberson Il est là | — | — |
| France | Mathé Altéry Le temps perdu | — | — |
 Luxembourg | Michèle Arnaud Les amants de minuit | — | — |
| Luxembourg | Michèle Arnaud Ne crois pas | — | — |
 Italy | Franca Raimondi Aprite le finestre | — | — |
| Italy | Tonina Torrielli Amami se vuoi | — | — |
 Netherlands | Corry Brokken Voorgoed voorbij | — | — |
| Netherlands | Jetty Paerl De vogels van Holland | — | — |
 Belgium | Fud Leclerc Messieurs les noyés de la Seine | — | — |
| Belgium | Mony Marc Le plus beau jour de ma vie | — | — |