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style="font-size: larger;" | **Melodifestivalen 1968**
Date:	9 March 1968
Presenter:	Magnus Banck
Venue:	Cirkus Cirkus (Stockholm) Cirkus is an arena in Djurgården, Stockholm, that holds 1,650 people. It was built in 1892 and originally used as a circus , but is today mostly used for concerts and musical shows.-External links:*... , Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Voting:	Regional juries
Winner:	Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mig performed by Claes-Göran Hederström Claes-Göran Hederström Claes-Göran Hederström is a Swedish singer. He made his musical debut on Swedish television in 1967. In 1968 he represented Sweden in the Eurovision song contest with Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mej placing 5th...
Winner's result at Eurovision Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition... :	Fifth place

Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio . It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959...

1968 was the selection for the 10th song to represent Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

at the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

. It was the ninth time that this system of picking a song had been used. 2233 songs were submitted to SVT

Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...

for the competition. The final was broadcast on Sveriges Radio TV

SVT1

SVT1 is the primary television station of the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television in Sweden.-History:The channel began broadcasting in 1956 and was known as Radiotjänst TV, A year later, it was renamed Sveriges Radio TV. In 1969, the second television station TV2 was launched and...

but was not broadcast on radio.

Results

Place	Artist	Song	Songwriters	Points
1st	Claes-Göran Hederström Claes-Göran Hederström Claes-Göran Hederström is a Swedish singer. He made his musical debut on Swedish television in 1967. In 1968 he represented Sweden in the Eurovision song contest with Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mej placing 5th...	Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mig Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mig "Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mig" was the Swedish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1968, performed in Swedish by Claes-Göran Hederström, the winner of Melodifestivalen 1968...	Peter Himmelstrand	23
2nd	Svante Thuresson Svante Thuresson Svante Thuresson is a Swedish jazz music musician and singer. He started his career as a drummer, before joining the band Gals and Pals in 1963...	Du är en vårvind i april	Staffan Ehrling, Bo-Göran Edling	21
3rd	Towa Carson Towa Carson Towa Carson , born on 31 March 1936 in Eskilstuna, Sweden, is a Swedish schlager singer. She debuted in 1954 and had the most success in the 1950s and 1960s, when she recorded many duets with Lasse Lönndahl...	Du vet var jag finns	Peter Himmelstrand	15
3rd	Mona Wessman	Gå och göm dig, Åke Tråk	Peter Himmelstrand	15
5th	Svante Thuresson Svante Thuresson Svante Thuresson is a Swedish jazz music musician and singer. He started his career as a drummer, before joining the band Gals and Pals in 1963... & Östen Warnebring	Här kommer pojkar	Sven Bergcrantz, Östen Warnebring	13
6th	Anna-Lena Löfgren Anna-Lena Löfgren Anna-Lena Löfgren was a Swedish singer from Stockholm. During the years 1962 and 1995, more than 40 of her songs made it onto Svensktoppen, the record chart of Sveriges Radio. Löfgren became one of the most best known schlager singers in Sweden during the 1960s.She made her first public...	Jag vill tro	Britt Lindeborg	5
7th	Gunnar Wiklund	Jag ser en värld	Marcus Österdahl, Bengt Sundström	3
7th	Cecilia Stam	Låt mej få va' ifred	Curt Peterson, Marcus Österdahl, Patrice Hellberg	3
9th	Britt Bergström	Fri hos dej	Curt Peterson, Marcus Österdahl, Patrice Hellberg	1
10th	Lars Lönndahl Lars Lönndahl Lars "Lasse" Lönndahl, born August 19, 1928, is a Swedish singer and actor, born in Stockholm. He is considered the most well-known Swedish singer of the 1950s and 1960s with nicknames including "The Swedish Frank Sinatra" and "World's Oldest Teenager"...	Du och jag och våren	Thore Skogman	0

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