Portugal was represented by

Madalena Iglésias Madalena Lucília Iglésias do Vale de Oliveira (born Madalena Lucília Iglésias Doval; 24 October 1939 – 16 January 2018) was a Portuguese actress and singer. She represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 The Eurovision Son ...

, with the song "Ele e ela", at the

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, which took place on 5 March in

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. "Ele e ela" was chosen as the Portuguese entry at the Grande Prémio TV da Canção Portuguesa on 15 January.

Before Eurovision

Festival da Canção 1966

The Grande Prémio TV da Canção Portuguesa 1966 was held on 15 January 1966 at 22:00 UTC at the Tóbis studios in

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, hosted by Maria Fernanda and

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. Eight songs took part in the final. Jorge Costa Pinto conducted all the songs. The winning song was chosen by a distrital jury, composed by three members, each had 5 votes to be distributed among the songs it intended to award, making a total of 15 votes per district.

At Eurovision

On the night of the final Iglésias performed 8th in the running order, following

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and preceding

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. At the close of the voting the song had received 6 points, coming 13th in the field of 18 competing countries. The Portuguese jury awarded its 5 points to

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. The orchestra during the Portuguese entry was conducted by Jorge Costa Pinto.

Voting

References

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Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966

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