Skip to content
EU Parl WatchResearch
Projects

Analysis

Cohesion

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

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

Cite
Export
Period Term202420252026Last 6 months
Custom dates
Votes Final votes245All roll calls2 136
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 20240.6693 votes0.8493 votes0.8893 votes0.9692 votes0.9293 votes0.7993 votes0.6393 votes0.7593 votes
Q4 20240.78131 votes0.92131 votes0.93131 votes0.95131 votes0.87131 votes0.76131 votes0.64131 votes0.82131 votes
Q1 20250.72278 votes0.89278 votes0.94277 votes0.94278 votes0.92273 votes0.80278 votes0.66278 votes0.77278 votes
Q2 20250.86318 votes0.94318 votes0.93318 votes0.90318 votes0.87317 votes0.82318 votes0.71318 votes0.80318 votes
Q3 20250.87229 votes0.90229 votes0.93229 votes0.94229 votes0.87229 votes0.85229 votes0.74229 votes0.77229 votes
Q4 20250.80270 votes0.93270 votes0.91270 votes0.93270 votes0.89270 votes0.81270 votes0.75270 votes0.78270 votes
Q1 20260.84317 votes0.88317 votes0.92317 votes0.91317 votes0.88317 votes0.83317 votes0.65317 votes0.78317 votes
Q2 20260.85297 votes0.94297 votes0.94297 votes0.93298 votes0.92298 votes0.79298 votes0.71297 votes0.78297 votes
Q3 20260.84202 votes0.95202 votes0.93202 votes0.96202 votes0.93202 votes0.77202 votes0.72202 votes0.82202 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).
Export
Cite

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?bucket=quarter&scope=all&topic=foreign-affairs&to=2026-09-26
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version
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
Retrieved
26 September 2026

Cite as

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 quarter · abstentions counted”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?bucket=quarter&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.
BibTeX 
@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 quarter · abstentions counted}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?bucket=quarter&scope=all&topic=foreign-affairs&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?bucket=quarter&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}
}