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((Infobox song contest national year 
| Year                   = 1961
| Country                = Sweden
| Preselection           = Melodifestivalen 1961
| Preselection date      = 6 February 1961 
| Entrant                = [[Lill-Babs]]
| Song                   = April, april
| Writer                 = ((Unbulleted list|Bobbie Ericsson|Bo Eneby))
| Final result           = 14th, 2 points
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'''Sweden''' chose their entrant for the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1961]] through Melodifestivalen 1961. The song "April, april", performed once with [[Siw Malmkvist]], once with [[Gunnar Wiklund]], won. However, none of them was considered acceptable for singing in ESC, so [[Lill-Babs]] was chosen as representative instead. In the contest, once more held in [[Cannes]], she finished in 14th place (out of 16).

==Before Eurovision==
===Melodifestivalen 1961===
[[File:Siw Malmkvist.jpg|thumb|right|[[Siw Malmkvist]] singing "April, april" at Melodifestivalen 1961.]]
Melodifestivalen 1961 was the Swedish national final and it was the third time that this system of picking a song had been used. One singer performed the song with a large [[orchestra]] and one with a smaller orchestra. Approximately 550 songs were submitted to [[Sveriges Television|SVT]] for the competition. The final was held in the [[Cirkus (Stockholm)|Cirkus]] in [[Stockholm]] on 6 February 1961, broadcast on [[SVT1|Sveriges Radio TV]], but was not broadcast on radio. [[Siw Malmkvist]] won with "April, april" but [[Lill-Babs]] went to Eurovision.

{| class="wikitable"
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!Place
!Artist((ref|1|1))
!Artist((ref|2|2))
!Song
!Songwriters
!Points
|-style="font-weight:bold;background:gold;"
|1st||[[Siw Malmkvist]]||[[Gunnar Wiklund]]||"April, april"||Bobbie Ericson, Bo Eneby||78
|-
|2nd||[[Lill-Babs]]||[[Lars Lönndahl]]||"Vårvinter"||Bobbie Ericson||71
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|2nd||[[Lars Lönndahl]]||[[Lily Berglund]]||"Spela på regnbågen"||Britt Lindeborg||71
|-
|4th||[[Gunnar Wiklund]]||[[Siw Malmkvist]]||"Vår i hjärtat"||Lennart Gröhn||58
|-
|5th||[[Lily Berglund]]||[[Lill-Babs]]||"Stockholm"||Bobbie Ericson, Eric Sandström||57
|}
*((note|1|1)): Performer with large orchestra
*((note|2|2)): Performer with smaller orchestra

== At Eurovision ==
On the night of the final, Lill-Babs performed 7th in the running order, following the [[Netherlands]] and preceding [[Germany]].

At the close of the voting "April, april" had received only 2 points (from [[France]]), placing Sweden 14th of the 16 competing entries.<ref>[http://www.esc-history.com/details.asp?key=73 ESC History - Sweden 1961]</ref>

=== Voting ===
Every country had a jury of ten people. Every jury member could give one point to his or her favourite song.

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|+ Points awarded to Sweden<ref name="1961detailed">((cite web |title=Results of the Final of Cannes 1961 |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/cannes-1961/final/results/sweden |publisher=Eurovision Song Contest |access-date=28 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210328083225/https://eurovision.tv/event/cannes-1961/final/results/sweden |archive-date=28 March 2021 |url-status=live))</ref>
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! scope="col" width="20%" | Score
! scope="col" | Country
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! scope="row" | 2 points
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! scope="col" width="20%" | Score
! scope="col" | Country
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! scope="row" | 4 points
| ((Esc|Switzerland|y=1961))
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! scope="row" | 2 points
| ((Esc|Denmark|y=1961))
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! scope="row" | 1 point
| ((Unbulleted list|((Esc|France|y=1961))|((Esc|Germany|y=1961))|((Esc|Luxembourg|y=1961))|((Esc|Spain|1945|y=1961))))
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==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20091026223403/http://geocities.com/national_finals_50s_60s/Sweden1961.html Swedish National Final page]

((Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest))
((Eurovision Song Contest 1961))
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[[Category:Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest|1961]]
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[[Category:Melodifestivalen by year|1961]]
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