X Factor Final 2015 results: Louisa Johnson a worthy winner, as the full voting stats show

Isabel Mohan follows the grand final live, as Louisa Johnson beats Reggie 'N' Bollie to be declared winner of X Factor 2015

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It's every X Factor geek's favourite bit of the final - the voting stats! ITV have just released the breakdown of the phone vote, week by week, and apart from a couple of small blips, she was the viewers' favourite from the beginning.

For the first three live shows, Louisa came top. In week four, the nation suddenly fell for Reggie 'N' Bollie and they beat Louisa by 0.1 per cent (with this year's viewing figures, that's probably just someone's dog treading on their phone).

In week five, both Reggie 'N' Bollie and Ché Chesterman beat her - but, again, by the tiniest of margins (just 1.1 per cent in it!), and from week six onwards she was back on top. But be prepared to feel very sorry for Bupsi.

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1. Of course Louisa Johnson had it in the bag

She did it! With 53.9 per cent of the vote, Louisa won X Factor, just as everyone knew she would. And with her permanently teary, permanently glittery eyes and stupendously huge voice, she was a worthy winner. But now comes the hard bit - actually having a career.
From her first audition, Louisa was a stand-out, sparkly presence on X Factor. At that point, there were lots of perky blondes with decent voices in the running, but Louisa outshone them all; it was very hard not to constantly turn into Louis Walsh and repeat "she's only 17 years old! She's only SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD!".
At times we felt a little bit sorry for her rivals - in any other year, Lauren Murray would've been a shoo-in for the final, but Louisa rapidly became the favourite for bookies, for viewers and, a little too obviously at times, for her mentor Rita Ora too.
And then of course there's Simon Cowell. He said he reckons Louisa is the best singer he's ever seen on the show, but he's a fickle man and could change his mind about her pretty swiftly, as he did with previous winners like James Arthur and long lost Steve Brookstein (hiya Steve!).
That said, at 17 Louisa's probably malleable enough to do everything that's asked of her. We just hope she stays so sweet and soft, and doesn't become as clearly miserable as One Direction who were also young and malleable when they formed on the show.

  

She might have pulled out a sick note a couple of times in recent weeks, but Louisa didn't actually have a duff week on the show. She was presented with some great song choices (even if she'd never heard of quite a few of them, such as The Beach Boys' God Only Knows) but her voice was so reliably powerful that she could probably sing the Nandos menu and still sound amazing.
Many people have likened her duet with Rita Ora (they sang Jennifer Hudson's I Am Teling You during part one of the final) to when Beyonce sang with Alexandra Burke, years ago. The crucial difference is, in this case, the real superstar with the powerful voice was the contestant, and not the guest star.
Let's not get carried away; Louisa probably won't be as big as Beyoncé. But it's impressive that a largely duff series of X Factor has actually produced one of the most promising winners yet.
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