Kazakhstan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019

On 25 November 2017, Channel 31 of Kazakhstan revealed their intention to participate in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018.[2] Initial claims emerged on 22 December 2017 from both the Kazakh Minister of Culture and Sports, Arystanbek Mukhamediuly; and the Director General of Channel 31, Bagdat Kodzhahmetov; that Kazakhstan had applied to become a member of the EBU, with the hope of participating both in the Eurovision Song Contest and the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.[3] Kodzhahmetov invited Daneliya Tuleshova, winner of the fourth season of Ukraine's version of The Voice Kids, to take part in the casting process to represent Kazakhstan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.[4] The next day, however, the EBU made a statement the following day rejecting the possibility of Kazakhstan becoming an active member of the EBU, owing to the fact that Kazakhstan is neither within the European Broadcasting Area nor the Council of Europe.[5]

Prior to the 2018 contest, Kazakhstan had sent a delegation to the 2013 and 2017 contests and broadcast the latter live.[6] Channel 31 also stated its intention to broadcast the contests in 2018 and 2019.[2] Khabar Agency has been an associate member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since January 2016.[7]

On 29 July 2019, Yerzhan Maksim was internally chosen to represent Kazakhstan in Gliwice.[8] His song "Armanyńnan qalma", composed by Khamit Shangaliyev and written by Aldabergenov Daniyar and Timur Balymbetov, was released on 10 October 2019.

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which both took place on 18 November 2019, Kazakhstan was drawn to perform tenth on 24 November 2019, following Wales and preceding Poland.[9]

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 Kazakhstan[12] Score Country 12 points  Belarus  Georgia  Netherlands  Poland  Serbia  Ukraine  Wales 10 points 8 points  Albania  Russia  Spain 7 points  Australia  Italy  Malta 6 points  Portugal 5 points  North Macedonia 4 points  Armenia 3 points 2 points  France  Ireland 1 point Kazakhstan received 79 points from the online vote

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

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Kazakhstan[12]

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