Alrighty, time to get my voting stats cap on.
Looking at the stats right now, we can see straight away that the nation was extremely divided on choosing whether to keep the show for one Series or to have it killed off this year.
The fact that there were fewer shows this year, it hasn't allowed much talking points to be made. ITV's weird choice over planning the Rugby schedule also contributed to what has been a dire Series.
it was an uphill struggle for the groups. 4th Impact had all the group hype on Show 1, bombed in show 2 (apart from R&B who thrived on it) before being shown the door by show 5 and I am kinda surprised that Alien Uncovered were third from bottom so if it had gone to deadlock, Keira would've been sent home a week earlier.
There was no chance for the Overs this year and it's not hard to see why, the producers goal was to get them out as early as possible, so when Anton reached third on show 1, they turned up the aim to get them out.
The Boys were hit and miss, Seann was not as popular as some of us thought and Mason got a lot of people talking for both right and wrong reasons, that left Che as the only boy the public was able to get behind to until he emerged in the sing-off, allowing him to regain his support that carried him to third in the final.
As for the girls, well Monica had the contestant comeback support and with Louisa being the chosen one and Lauren having the Essex/Girl next door vote, Kiera just didn't stand a chance and went out, almost being forgotten in the process. Monica was unable to last long a show later and then Lauren followed suit two shows later.
I then thought that once again the girls category was going to be wiped out, but then I remembered that Louisa got to the final and she is the first girl to have reached the final since Amelia Lily, but Louisa did better by getting there with no sing-off appearance. Her winning also makes her the first girl in the category to have won since Alexandra Burke.
So in summary, half of the voters wanted the show to be axed this year, but once Che was gone, that left a huge pile of balled-lover type voters to switch to another act and therefore giving Louisa the win and by a landslide too.