Bids for Olympic Games (ballots)

Following are all results of the ballots during the decisions about the host for Summer and Winter Olympics.

Ballots (Summer Olympics)

1896-1932

The ballots have not been published.

1936 Berlin

	1.ballot
Berlin (GER)	43
Barcelona (ESP)	16
Alexandria (EGY)	0
Budapest (HUN)	0
Buenos Aires (ARG)	0
Cologne (GER)	0
Dublin (IRL)	0
Frankfurt (GER)	0
Helsinki (FIN)	0
Lausanne (SUI)	0
Nuremberg (GER)	0
Rio de Janeiro (BRA)	0
Rome (ITA)	0

1940 (not celebrated)

The winner, Tokyo, had to give up the games to Helsinki because of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Eventually, the games were cancelled entirely due to World War II.

	1.ballot
Tokyo (JPN)	36
Helsinki (FIN)	27
Alexandria (EGY)	0
Athens (GRE)	0
Barcelona (ESP)	0
Budapest (HUN)	0
Buenos Aires (ARG)	0
Dublin (IRL)	0
Lausanne (SUI)	0
London (GBR)	0
Montreal (CAN)	0
Rio de Janeiro (BRA)	0
Rome (ITA)	0
Toronto (CAN)	0

1944 (not celebrated)

Though London won, like the 1940 games these were cancelled due to World War II.

	1.ballot
London (GBR)	20
Rome (ITA)	11
Detroit (USA)	2
Lausanne (SUI)	1
Melbourne (AUS)	0
Budapest (HUN)	0
Helsinki (FIN)	0
Montreal (CAN)	0

1948 London

The ballots have not been published.

The other bidding cities were: Baltimore (USA); Lausanne (SUI); Los Angeles (USA); Minneapolis (USA); and Philadelphia (USA).

1952 Helsinki

	1.ballot	2.ballot
Helsinki (FIN)	14	15
Los Angeles (USA)	4	5
Minneapolis (USA)	4	5
Amsterdam (NED)	3	3
Detroit (USA)	2	0
Chicago (USA)	1	0
Philadelphia (USA)	1	0
Athens (GRE)	0
Lausanne (SUI)	0
Stockholm (SWE)	0

1956 Melbourne + Stockholm

Primary site (Melbourne)

	1.ballot	2.ballot	3.ballot	4.ballot
Melbourne (AUS)	14	18	19	21
Buenos Aires (ARG)	9	12	13	20
Los Angeles (USA)	5	4	5
Detroit (USA)	2	4	4
Mexico City (MEX)	9	3
Chicago (USA)	1
Minneapolis (USA)	1
Philadelphia (USA)	1
Montreal (CAN)	0
San Francisco (USA)	0

Equestrian competition (Stockholm)

Due to strict Australian horse quarantine laws of that time, the 1956 equestrian competition could not be held at Melbourne; thus another city was selected to host that competition.

	1.ballot
Stockholm (SWE)	25
Paris (FRA)	10
Rio de Janeiro (BRA)	8
Berlin (FRG)	2
Los Angeles (USA)	2
Buenos Aires (ARG)	0

1960 Rome

	1.ballot	2.ballot	3.ballot
Rome (ITA)	15	26	35
Lausanne (SUI)	14	21	24
Detroit (USA)	6	11
Budapest (HUN)	8	1
Brussels (BEL)	6
Mexico City (MEX)	6
Tokyo (JPN)	4
Athens (GRE)	0
Buenos Aires (ARG)	0
Chicago (USA)	0
Los Angeles (USA)	0
Minneapolis (USA)	0
New York (USA)	0
Philadelphia (USA)	0
Rio de Janeiro (BRA)	0
San Francisco (USA)	0

1964 Tokyo

	1.ballot
Tokyo (JPN)	34
Detroit (USA)	10
Vienna (AUT)	9
Brussels (BEL)	5

1968 Mexico City

	1.ballot
Mexico City (MEX)	30
Detroit (USA)	14
Lyon (FRA)	12
Buenos Aires (ARG)	2

1972 Munich

	1.ballot	2.ballot
Munich (GER)	21	31
Montreal (CAN)	16	13
Madrid (ESP)	16	16
Detroit (USA)	6

1976 Montreal

	1.ballot	2.ballot
Montreal (CAN)	25	41
Moscow (USSR)	28	28
Los Angeles (USA)	17
Florence (ITA)	0

1980 Moscow

	1.ballot
Moscow (URS)	39
Los Angeles (USA)	20

1984 Los Angeles

Tehran, Iran withdrew its bid shortly before the decision and was no longer a choice in the voting. This left only one bidding city.

1988 Seoul

	1.ballot
Seoul (KOR)	52
Nagoya (JPN)	27

1992 Barcelona

	1.ballot	2.ballot	3.ballot
Barcelona (ESP)	29	37	47
Paris (FRA)	19	20	23
Brisbane (AUS)	11	9	10
Belgrade (YUG)	13	11	5
Birmingham (GBR)	8	8
Amsterdam (NED)	5

1996 Atlanta

	1.ballot	2.ballot	3.ballot	4.ballot	5.ballot
Atlanta (USA)	19	20	26	34	51
Athens (GRE)	23	23	26	30	35
Toronto (CAN)	14	17	18	22
Melbourne (AUS)	12	21	16
Manchester (GBR)	11	5
Belgrade (YUG)	7

2000 Sydney

	1.ballot	2.ballot	3.ballot	4.ballot
Sydney (AUS)	30	30	37	45
Beijing (CHN)	32	37	40	43
Manchester (GBR)	11	13	11
Berlin (GER)	9	9
Istanbul (TUR)	7

2004 Athens

Several bidding cities were not accepted: Istanbul (TUR); Lille (FRA); Rio de Janeiro (BRA); San Juan (PUR); Saint Petersburg (RUS); Sevilla (ESP).

	1.ballot	run-off	2.ballot	3.ballot	4.ballot
Athens (GRE)	32		38	52	66
Rome (ITA)	23		28	35	41
Cape Town (SAF)	16	62	22	20
Stockholm (SWE)	20		9
Buenos Aires (ARG)	16	44

2008 Beijing

Several bidding cities were not accepted: Bangkok (THA); Havana (CUB); Cairo (EGY); Kuala Lumpur (MAS); Sevilla (ESP).

	1.ballot	2.ballot
Beijing (CHN)	44	56
Toronto (CAN)	20	22
Paris (FRA)	15	18
Istanbul (TUR)	17	9
Osaka (JPN)	6

2012 London

Several bidding cities were not accepted: Leipzig (GER); Rio de Janeiro (BRA); Istanbul (TUR); and Havana (CUB).

	1.ballot	2.ballot	3.ballot	4.ballot
London (GBR)	22	27	39	54
Paris (FRA)	21	25	33	50
Madrid (ESP)	20	32	31
New York (USA)	19	16
Moscow (RUS)	15

Ballots (Winter Olympics)

1924-40

The ballots have not been published.

1944 (not held)

Though Cortina d'Ampezzo won, these games were not held due to World War II.

	1.ballot	2.ballot
Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA)	16	16
Montreal (CAN)	11	12
Oslo (NOR)	7	2

1948 St Moritz

The other bidding city was Lake Placid, New York. The ballot has not been published.

1952 Oslo

	1.ballot
Oslo (NOR)	18
Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA)	9
Lake Placid, New York (USA)	1

1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo

	1.ballot
Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA)	31
Montreal (CAN)	7
Colorado Springs (USA)	2
Lake Placid, New York (USA)	1

1960 Squaw Valley

	1.ballot	2.ballot
Squaw Valley (USA)	30	32
Innsbruck (AUT)	24	30
Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER)	5
St Moritz (SUI)	3
Karachi (PAK)	0

1964 Innsbruck

	1.ballot
Innsbruck (AUT)	49
Calgary (CAN)	9
Lahti (FIN)	0

1968 Grenoble

	1.ballot	2.ballot	3.ballot
Grenoble (FRA)	15	18	27
Lahti (FIN)	11	14
Sapporo (JPN)	6
Oslo (NOR)	4
Lake Placid, New York (USA)	3

1972 Sapporo

	1.ballot
Sapporo (JPN)	32
Banff (CAN)	16
Lahti (FIN)	7
Salt Lake City (USA)	7

1976 Innsbruck

Original election (Denver)

	1.ballot	2.ballot	3.ballot
Denver (USA)	29	39	39
Sion (SUI)	18	31	30
Tampere (FIN)	12	8
Vancouver (CAN)	9
Granada (ESP)	0

Second election (Innsbruck)

A second decision was required because Denver was unable to host due to a negative referendum. Sion, the runner up, was unable to host because of lack of time. This meant that Innsbruck, the host of 1964, received the games for a second time.

The other bidding cities were: Lake Placid, New York (USA); Chamonix (FRA); and Tampere (FIN). The ballots have not been published.

1980 Lake Placid

Vancouver withdrew its bid shortly before the decision and was no longer a choice in the voting. This left only one bidding city.

1984 Sarajevo

	1.ballot	2.ballot
Sarajevo (YUG)	31	39
Sapporo (JPN)	33	36
Göteborg (SWE)	10

1988 Calgary

	1.ballot	2.ballot
Calgary (CAN)	35	48
Falun (SWE)	25	31
Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA)	18

1992 Albertville

	1.ballot	2.ballot	3.ballot	4.ballot	run-off	5.ballot
Albertville (FRA)	19	26	29	42		51
Sofia (BUL)	25	25	28	24		25
Falun (SWE)	10	11	11	9	44	9
Lillehammer (NOR)	10	11	9	9	40
Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA)	7	6	7
Anchorage (USA)	7	5
Berchtesgaden (GER)	6

1994 Lillehammer

	1.ballot	2.ballot	3.ballot
Lillehammer (NOR)	25	30	45
Östersund/Are (SWE)	19	33	39
Anchorage (USA)	23	22
Sofia (BUL)	17

1998 Nagano

	1.ballot	run-off	2.ballot	3.ballot	4.ballot
Nagano (JPN)	21		30	36	46
Salt Lake City (USA)	15	59	27	29	42
Östersund (SWE)	18		25	23
Jaca (ESP)	19		5
Aosta (ITA)	15	29

2002 Salt Lake City

Several bidding cities were not accepted: Graz (AUT); Jaca (ESP); Poprad (SVK); Sochi (RUS); and Tarvisio (ITA).

	1.ballot
Salt Lake City (USA)	54
Östersund (SWE)	14
Sion (SUI)	14
Quebec City (CAN)	7

2006 Turin

Several bidding cities were not accepted: Helsinki (FIN); Klagenfurt (AUT); Poprad (SVK); and Zakopane (POL).

	1.ballot
Turin (ITA)	53
Sion (SUI)	36

2010 Vancouver

Several bidding cities were not accepted: Andorra la Vella (AND); Harbin (CHN); Jaca (ESP); and Sarajevo (B/H).

Bern (SUI) withdrew its bid, although it was accepted by the IOC.

	1.ballot	2.ballot
Vancouver (CAN)	40	56
PyeongChang (KOR)	51	53
Salzburg (AUT)	16

2014 Sochi

Several bidding cities were not accepted: Almaty (KAZ), Borjomi (GEO), Jaca (ESP) and Sofia (BUL).

	1.ballot	2.ballot
Sochi (RUS)	34	51
PyeongChang (KOR)	36	47
Salzburg (AUT)	25

Sources

• Olympic Bid Election History - Voting Records and Results