Contests with public voting in October in Ukraine: dates and organisers
Contests in October in Ukraine with public voting that the reports name are the Junior Eurovision 2025 selection in the Diia app, the Slushno 2025 listener ranking, and Focus magazine's Top 50 blogger reader vote of 2024. The reports date all three to October: Junior Eurovision's public stage ran from 10:00 on 10 October to 10:00 on 12 October 2025, Focus's vote closed on 14 October 2024, and Slushno's winners were announced in October 2025. No report gives a 2026 date, so every date here belongs to a past contest.
Rechecked on 21 October 2026.
Junior Eurovision 2025: the public stage ran in the Diia app for two days
Ukraine's national selection for Junior Eurovision 2025 was run by Suspilne, the public broadcaster, and its public stage ran in the Diia app. The reports call that stage the first stage of voting, and say it opened two days before the selection's final. A public stage placed ahead of a final is the structure to check in this contest.
The window was set to the hour. It opened at 10:00 on 10 October 2025 and closed at 10:00 on 12 October, so the closing time, not only the closing day, is the figure to plan around. The reports give no figure for how many people took part in the stage.
Because the stage ran in a state app, the reports tie the count to that app rather than to a website or a form. The reports do not say how the app confirmed that each person voted once, and this page does not fill that gap.
- Junior Eurovision 2025's public stage ran in the Diia app.
- The public stage opened two days before the selection's final.
- The window ran from 10:00 on 10 October to 10:00 on 12 October 2025.
- Suspilne ran the national selection, and the Diia app carried the public stage.
- The reports name the Diia app as the channel for that stage.
Slushno 2025: listener scores and an expert jury counted in equal shares
MEGOGO's Slushno 2025 set its winners by combining listeners' scores with the scores of an expert jury, and it gave the two parts equal weight. In practice half of each result came from the public side and half from the panel, so a listener's share is real but is never the whole result.
The report gives a ceremony date of 1 October and an announcement in October 2025, and it does not say which of the two counts as the result date. This page gives both dates as the report gives them, and does not pick one.
A weighting rule like this one is set by the organiser, and the report states it only in outline. The page therefore names the split, equal shares, and leaves out any percentage that the report does not give.
- Slushno 2025 gave listeners and an expert jury equal weight.
- The winners were announced in October 2025 at a ceremony on 1 October.
- The reports do not say which date counts as the result date.
- A listener share and a jury share make up the Slushno result.
- MEGOGO ran Slushno 2025, and Mezha reported how it was weighted.
Focus's Top 50 bloggers: a four-week reader vote closing at 23:59
Focus magazine ran a reader vote for its Top 50 Ukrainian bloggers of 2024. The report describes it as a four-week reader vote, and it gives the closing time but not the opening date.
The vote closed on 14 October 2024 at 23:59, a closing time stated to the minute. For a reader, the closing time is the deadline, so a vote cast after 23:59 on 14 October falls outside the stated window.
The four-week window is the longest of the three October votes with a stated length. Anyone checking when this vote opened should go to the magazine's own published terms, since the reports do not give them.
- Focus magazine's reader vote for Top 50 bloggers ran four weeks.
- That vote closed on 14 October 2024 at 23:59.
- The Top 50 list covers Ukrainian bloggers of 2024.
- The four-week window is the longest of the three October votes with a stated length.
- The reports give no opening date for the Focus reader vote.
Three structures: a two-day stage, a weighted ranking, a four-week vote
The three October votes differ in the three things an entrant checks first: how long the window runs, who decides the result, and when it closes. Junior Eurovision set a two-day window tied to a selection, Slushno split its result between listeners and a jury, and Focus ran a four-week reader vote.
None of the three structures is a template for the others, and the reports give no rule that carries one organiser's method across to another. A reader who wants the same rule for a different October contest has to read that contest's own terms.
Set side by side, the three show why a single October rule cannot be stated for Ukraine from these reports. A broadcaster, a listener ranking and a magazine each set their own terms, and each term applies only to its own contest.
- Three October votes differ in window length, decision and closing time.
- Junior Eurovision's stage ran two days, and Focus's vote ran four weeks.
- Slushno's result combines listener scores with an expert jury.
- The three reports cannot be generalised into one October rule.
- Each organiser's own terms set how its contest is counted.
What the reports leave open: entry dates, disqualification and 2026
The reports give no entry deadline for any of the three votes, so this page cannot say how far ahead an entry had to be made. Nor do they set out a disqualification rule, or describe how a broadcaster, a magazine or a ranking checks that a voter is a real person.
No Ukrainian law on contests or votes is cited in these reports, so this page cannot say whether any of the three votes is lawful. Each one belongs to its own organiser, and that organiser's published rules are the place to check its terms.
The newest dated vote in the material is the Junior Eurovision stage of October 2025, and no report covers October 2026. A calendar for next October needs fresh reports, and none of the three votes here can be carried forward as a date.
- The reports name no entry deadline for any October vote in Ukraine.
- No report describes how a voter is checked as a real person.
- No Ukrainian law on contests or votes is cited in these reports.
- The newest dated vote in the material ran in October 2025.
- No report covers October 2026, so no 2026 dates can be given.
Rules that apply
The dates and names here come from three press reports, each checked against the report that carries it: Interfax-Ukraine on the Junior Eurovision selection, Mezha on the Slushno 2025 ranking, and Focus magazine's own site on its Top 50 bloggers vote. The page was reviewed on 21 October 2026. None of the reports gives the full voting rules of its organiser, so where a rule is not in these reports, the page says so rather than filling it in. The newest dated vote in the sources is the Junior Eurovision stage of October 2025.
What we decline
This page does not forecast which Ukrainian contests will run in October 2026, because no report it draws on covers 2026. It gives no result for any vote, and it does not say how a broadcaster, a magazine or a ranking counts its public choices. Suspilne, MEGOGO, Focus magazine and the Diia app each set their own rules, dates and weighting, and this page cannot change them. Nothing here promises a placing, a win or a count that a particular entry would reach.
Questions and answers
The reports name three October votes in Ukraine: Junior Eurovision 2025's public stage in the Diia app, Slushno 2025, and Focus magazine's Top 50 blogger vote of 2024. Only the Junior Eurovision stage has an opening reference in the reports, two days before the selection's final.
Two October votes close in the reports: Junior Eurovision's public stage at 10:00 on 12 October 2025, and Focus magazine's reader vote at 23:59 on 14 October 2024. The reports give no closing time for the Slushno 2025 ranking, so none can be stated for it.
Two of the three October votes state their length: two days for Junior Eurovision and four weeks for the Focus reader vote. The Junior Eurovision window is set by its hour, from 10:00 on 10 October to 10:00 on 12 October 2025, and the reports give no length for Slushno 2025.
The reports date Slushno 2025's winners to a ceremony on 1 October, with the announcement in October 2025. They give no announcement date for the Junior Eurovision final result or for the Focus Top 50 list, so no gap between voting and results can be stated for those two.
The reports name no entry deadline for any October vote in Ukraine, so no lead time can be stated from them. The Junior Eurovision public stage opened two days before the selection's final, which is the only pre-result timing the reports give.
The reports set no preparation date, so the organiser's own published dates are the only ones to work from. The shortest stated window in the material is the Junior Eurovision stage at two days, and the longest is Focus magazine's four-week reader vote.