Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021

On 16 May 2020, LTV confirmed that Samanta Tīna was selected internally to represent Latvia in the 2021 contest.[3] The Latvian entry for 2021, titled "The Moon Is Rising", was revealed on 12 March 2021, at the close of a special documentary series on LTV titled Kā uzvarēt Eirovīzijā? Samantas Tīnas ceļš uz Roterdamu ("How to win at Eurovision? Samanta Tīna's Road to Rotterdam") that chronicles the process of choosing the entry.[4] The song and accompanying music video, directed by Samanta Tīna, with producer Aiga Baikova and operator Ritvars Bluka, were publically released on 13 March.[5] The video was filmed using a phone camera.[6]

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who were citizens of the country they represented, with a diversity in gender and age among jury members. The judges assessed each entry based on the performances during the second Dress Rehearsal of each show, which took place the night before each live show, against a set of criteria including: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression of the act.[10] Jury members could only take part in the panel once every three years, and were obliged to confirm that they were not connected to any of the participating acts in a way that would impact their ability to vote impartially. Jury members were required to vote independently, with no discussion of their vote permitted with other jury members.[11] The exact composition of the professional jury, and the results of each country's jury and televoting were released after the grand final; the individual results from each jury member were also released in an anonymised form.[12][13]

The following members comprised the Latvian jury:[12][13]

• Patrīcija Cuprijanoviča (Patrisha)
• Magnuss Eriņš
• Valts Pūce
• Kaspars Zemītis
• Guna Zučika

Detailed voting results from Latvia (Semi-final 2)[14]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	San Marino	4	5	12	11	14	9	2	12
02	Estonia	12	9	6	6	7	8	3	2	10
03	Czech Republic	7	8	15	13	11	13		13
04	Greece	10	11	5	7	10	11		10	1
05	Austria	11	10	11	10	3	10	1	11
06	Poland	14	15	10	16	13	16		16
07	Moldova	13	14	1	9	15	7	4	1	12
08	Iceland	5	2	2	1	1	1	12	4	7
09	Serbia	6	13	13	15	16	14		15
10	Georgia	16	7	16	14	12	15		8	3
11	Albania	2	12	9	12	8	6	5	14
12	Portugal	9	3	8	2	6	3	8	6	5
13	Bulgaria	8	4	7	3	5	5	6	9	2
14	Finland	3	6	4	5	9	4	7	3	8
15	Latvia
16	Switzerland	1	1	3	4	2	2	10	5	6
17	Denmark	15	16	14	8	4	12		7	4

Detailed voting results from Latvia (Final)[15]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Cyprus	21	22	24	25	25	25		20
02	Albania	17	23	22	23	17	23		24
03	Israel	19	19	18	20	16	21		19
04	Belgium	9	8	10	6	19	12		13
05	Russia	10	10	6	5	18	10	1	2	10
06	Malta	3	9	7	21	15	9	2	17
07	Portugal	14	11	12	8	7	13		14
08	Serbia	20	26	25	26	26	26		25
09	United Kingdom	26	6	17	22	21	15		23
10	Greece	13	18	16	15	6	14		16
11	Switzerland	4	1	1	9	2	1	12	7	4
12	Iceland	7	3	2	4	1	2	10	6	5
13	Spain	22	21	26	16	20	24		26
14	Moldova	23	25	13	18	24	22		11
15	Germany	24	20	14	10	11	17		18
16	Finland	12	5	5	7	8	7	4	3	8
17	Bulgaria	11	17	3	13	3	6	5	15
18	Lithuania	5	2	19	3	10	5	6	1	12
19	Ukraine	1	13	8	1	14	4	7	5	6
20	France	6	7	9	11	4	8	3	8	3
21	Azerbaijan	15	24	15	12	22	20		12
22	Norway	25	14	4	24	5	11		9	2
23	Netherlands	16	15	20	14	9	16		22
24	Italy	2	4	11	2	12	3	8	4	7
25	Sweden	18	12	21	19	13	19		10	1
26	San Marino	8	16	23	17	23	18		21