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Cohesion

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · topic Foreign affairs (model-assigned) · political groups · per month · abstentions counted

How united do the groups vote — over time, and on the votes of each committee or topic?

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Cohesion over time

Agreement Index per month, from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same). A vote counts for a bloc when at least 10 of its members and a third of its seats voted; a gap is a period with fewer than 20 votes counted.

Cohesion of the groups per month, Jul 2024 to Sept 2026: Agreement Index from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same).

Jul 2024 → Sept 2026; each panel highlights one series, the others faint behind it.

Data as a table
Agreement Index per period (0 = evenly split, 1 = all voted the same), with the votes counted in it. — : fewer than 20 votes counted in the period (a vote counts for a bloc when at least 10 of its members and a third of its seats voted).
PeriodThe LeftGreensS&DRenewEPPECRPatriotsESN
Jul 20240.6721 votes0.7521 votes0.8321 votes0.9421 votes0.8921 votes0.7221 votes0.6821 votes0.8321 votes
Sept 20240.6672 votes0.8772 votes0.9072 votes0.9671 votes0.9372 votes0.8172 votes0.6272 votes0.7272 votes
Oct 20240.6636 votes0.9736 votes0.9736 votes0.9636 votes0.9436 votes0.8236 votes0.5236 votes0.8036 votes
Nov 20240.7047 votes0.8547 votes0.8747 votes0.9447 votes0.9547 votes0.6647 votes0.6147 votes0.7847 votes
Dec 20240.9348 votes0.9648 votes0.9748 votes0.9748 votes0.7348 votes0.8248 votes0.7548 votes0.8748 votes
Jan 20250.8248 votes0.9448 votes0.9547 votes0.9848 votes0.9144 votes0.8948 votes0.7348 votes0.6948 votes
Feb 20250.6832 votes0.9832 votes0.9632 votes0.9732 votes0.9431 votes0.6232 votes0.6632 votes0.8032 votes
Mar 20250.70198 votes0.86198 votes0.93198 votes0.93198 votes0.92198 votes0.81198 votes0.64198 votes0.78198 votes
Apr 20250.87210 votes0.92210 votes0.91210 votes0.88210 votes0.85209 votes0.86210 votes0.73210 votes0.78210 votes
May 20250.8743 votes0.9643 votes0.9443 votes0.9743 votes0.8843 votes0.6243 votes0.6243 votes0.8643 votes
Jun 20250.8465 votes0.9965 votes0.9765 votes0.9265 votes0.9265 votes0.8265 votes0.6865 votes0.8365 votes
Jul 20250.86145 votes0.93145 votes0.95145 votes0.96145 votes0.86145 votes0.82145 votes0.70145 votes0.85145 votes
Sept 20250.8884 votes0.8484 votes0.8884 votes0.8984 votes0.8884 votes0.9084 votes0.8084 votes0.6384 votes
Oct 20250.7774 votes0.9374 votes0.9374 votes0.9374 votes0.8274 votes0.8574 votes0.7874 votes0.8774 votes
Nov 20250.75125 votes0.94125 votes0.95125 votes0.96125 votes0.95125 votes0.83125 votes0.67125 votes0.77125 votes
Dec 20250.9271 votes0.9371 votes0.8171 votes0.8671 votes0.8571 votes0.7371 votes0.8771 votes0.7171 votes
Jan 20260.82130 votes0.85130 votes0.89130 votes0.89130 votes0.88130 votes0.84130 votes0.72130 votes0.74130 votes
Feb 20260.87147 votes0.95147 votes0.96147 votes0.92147 votes0.86147 votes0.81147 votes0.61147 votes0.83147 votes
Mar 20260.8440 votes0.7540 votes0.8740 votes0.9240 votes0.9540 votes0.8640 votes0.5740 votes0.7140 votes
Apr 20260.7140 votes0.9240 votes0.9340 votes0.9740 votes0.9640 votes0.8140 votes0.6540 votes0.8140 votes
May 20260.9389 votes0.9489 votes0.9589 votes0.9289 votes0.9389 votes0.7989 votes0.7189 votes0.7489 votes
Jun 20260.84168 votes0.95168 votes0.94168 votes0.93169 votes0.90169 votes0.79169 votes0.73168 votes0.80168 votes
Jul 20260.84178 votes0.95178 votes0.93178 votes0.95178 votes0.93178 votes0.75178 votes0.71178 votes0.81178 votes
Sept 20260.8424 votes0.9324 votes0.9624 votes0.9824 votes0.9224 votes0.9224 votes0.7924 votes0.8324 votes
Whole period0.820.910.930.930.890.810.700.78
Votes considered2,1352,1352,1342,1352,1302,1362,1352,135

Over the whole selection

Each group’s Agreement Index over every vote in the selection where enough of its members voted.

Cohesion: the Agreement Index (0–1) over the votes counted — votes where at least 10 members and a third of the seats voted; — : fewer than 20 such votes. Seats: members now. Order as the backend lists the blocs, not a ranking.
GroupCohesionVotes countedSeats
The Left 0.822 13544
Greens 0.912 13553
S&D 0.932 134135
Renew 0.932 13578
EPP 0.892 130184
ECR 0.812 13684
Patriots 0.702 13585
ESN 0.782 13527

The tables by committee and by topic are computed over a whole period: choose Whole period.

About these figures

What was counted, what was left out, and how.

  • 2 136 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 28 of 273 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 13 times a bloc had too few members voting on a vote (fewer than 10, or under a third of its seats) and was left out of that vote (turnout rule).
  • Cohesion is the Agreement Index: 1 when every voting member took the same position, 0 when the bloc split evenly three ways (method). A bloc counts on a vote only when at least 10 of its members and a third of its seats voted; the non-attached have no group cohesion.
  • Months are offered for all roll calls only, and a month needs at least 20 votes.
  • Each member is counted in the group they belonged to on the day of the vote (group at the date).
  • Roll calls are not a random sample: final votes on laws are recorded by name, most other roll calls because a group asked for it. A group’s line is inferred from its members’ votes; the Parliament publishes no whip.
  • Methods: Cohesion (Agreement Index) v1, Final votes and all roll calls v1, Group at the date of the vote v1.
  • Data as of 26 Sept 2026, 03:32 UTC (data stamp 579b2832c723, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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data version 579b2832c723 (26 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1 · methods
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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Cohesion — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · topic Foreign affairs (model-assigned) · political groups · per month · abstentions counted”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?bucket=month&scope=all&topic=foreign-affairs&to=2026-09-26 (retrieved 26 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1.
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@misc{epw-analysis-2026-09-26,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Cohesion — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · topic Foreign affairs (model-assigned) · political groups · per month · abstentions counted}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?bucket=month&scope=all&topic=foreign-affairs&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?bucket=month&scope=all&topic=foreign-affairs&to=2026-09-26},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1}
}