National final

The winner was determined by a seven-member jury formed of both representatives of Ukrainian television, as well as music industry professionals and announced on 19 August 2019.^[6] The jury panel that selected the winner consisted of: Oleksandra Koltsova (singer, member of the UA:PBC board), Alyosha (singer, represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010), Adam (singer, composer), Tanya Sha (singer, composer), Oleksandr Stasov (composer), Oksana Shibinskaya (Head of Delegation of Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest) and Stanislav Medvedev (Head of Entertainment at UA:PBC).^[7] Together with the winner announcement, jury member Alyosha also announced the reasoning for the selection of Sophia Ivanko, stating: "We have decided that Sofia Ivanko would be the best representative of Ukraine at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest this year. Why? Because she very much stands out from other participants, she is very special, she has her specific, very expressively emotional character, she is mysterious and there is something about her, not characteristic of other people or other participants. The song needs a little more extra work, and then it will be very cool material, a cool song. I hope that Ukraine’s entry will be highly appreciated not only here, in this room, but also all over the world".^[8]

Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten.^[10]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 22 November 2019 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on Sunday 24 November at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for a minimum of three and a maximum of five songs.^[11] They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

Points awarded to Ukraine[12] Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points  Belarus 7 points  Armenia 6 points  Kazakhstan 5 points 4 points 3 points  Australia  Serbia 2 points 1 point  Albania Ukraine received 31 points from the online vote

Points awarded by Ukraine[12] Score Country 12 points  Kazakhstan 10 points  Australia 8 points  Poland 7 points  North Macedonia 6 points  Spain 5 points  Italy 4 points  Armenia 3 points  Ireland 2 points  Netherlands 1 point  Serbia

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Ukraine^[12]

Draw	Country	Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points Awarded
01	Australia	4	2	9	2	3	2	10
02	France	6	14	10	12	10	13
03	Russia	10	16	15	10	13	15
04	North Macedonia	3	4	6	7	11	4	7
05	Spain	2	7	11	6	7	5	6
06	Georgia	14	12	4	8	9	11
07	Belarus	17	10	12	5	8	12
08	Malta	18	8	18	14	17	16
09	Wales	9	18	14	15	16	17
10	Kazakhstan	1	3	5	1	2	1	12
11	Poland	11	1	7	4	1	3	8
12	Ireland	15	9	3	16	4	8	3
13	Ukraine
14	Netherlands	8	13	8	3	12	9	2
15	Armenia	13	15	1	11	6	7	4
16	Portugal	16	17	17	17	18	18
17	Italy	7	6	2	9	14	6	5
18	Albania	12	5	16	18	15	14
19	Serbia	5	11	13	13	5	10	1