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Cohesion

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · political groups · per quarter · for and against only

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

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Period Term202420252026Last 6 months
Custom dates
Votes Final votes620All roll calls5 928
Blocs GroupsDelegations
Periods Part-sessionsQuartersMonthsWhole period
Positions For, against, abstainedFor and against only ⓘ

Cohesion over time

Agreement Index per quarter, 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 quarter, Q3 2024 to Q3 2026: Agreement Index from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same).

Q3 2024 → Q3 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
Q3 2024—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes—8 votes—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes
Q4 20240.8757 votes0.9457 votes0.9757 votes0.8157 votes0.8657 votes0.7957 votes0.8357 votes0.9155 votes
Q1 20250.8330 votes0.9730 votes0.9830 votes0.9030 votes0.9430 votes0.8730 votes0.8930 votes0.9330 votes
Q2 20250.8284 votes0.9484 votes0.9484 votes0.9684 votes0.9584 votes0.7984 votes0.8184 votes0.9284 votes
Q3 20250.8558 votes0.9757 votes0.9458 votes0.9658 votes0.9558 votes0.8958 votes0.8158 votes0.9358 votes
Q4 20250.90121 votes0.96121 votes0.95121 votes0.85121 votes0.87121 votes0.86121 votes0.82121 votes0.91121 votes
Q1 20260.8288 votes0.9489 votes0.9689 votes0.8789 votes0.9289 votes0.7789 votes0.8189 votes0.8989 votes
Q2 20260.8399 votes0.9698 votes0.9699 votes0.93100 votes0.96100 votes0.82100 votes0.7999 votes0.8697 votes
Q3 20260.8372 votes0.9472 votes0.9472 votes0.8572 votes0.9072 votes0.8172 votes0.7472 votes0.9172 votes
Whole period0.840.950.950.890.920.820.810.90
Votes considered618617619619620620619615

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 0.8461844
Greens 0.9561753
S&D 0.95619135
Renew 0.8961978
EPP 0.92620184
ECR 0.8262084
Patriots 0.8161985
ESN 0.9061527

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.

  • 620 votes considered (final votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 174 of 794 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 25 Sept 2026, 03:36 UTC (data stamp f37e5638cded, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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data version f37e5638cded (25 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 — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · political groups · per quarter · for and against only”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?bucket=month&scope=final&variant=forAgainst&to=2026-09-25 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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-2026-09-25,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Cohesion — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · political groups · per quarter · for and against only}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?bucket=month&scope=final&variant=forAgainst&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?bucket=month&scope=final&variant=forAgainst&to=2026-09-25},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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}
}