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All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Human rights abroad (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?

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Period Term202420252026Last 6 months
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Votes Final votes80All roll calls547
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 20240.8028 votes0.9628 votes0.8928 votes0.9527 votes0.9528 votes0.9428 votes0.5728 votes0.6828 votes
Q4 20240.7039 votes0.9539 votes0.9539 votes0.9539 votes0.9539 votes0.7539 votes0.5039 votes0.7939 votes
Q1 20250.7870 votes0.9670 votes0.9669 votes0.9770 votes0.9465 votes0.7370 votes0.7470 votes0.7570 votes
Q2 20250.8957 votes0.9657 votes0.9557 votes0.9657 votes0.8957 votes0.7457 votes0.7157 votes0.8257 votes
Q3 20250.7151 votes0.9351 votes0.9551 votes0.9651 votes0.9151 votes0.8851 votes0.7451 votes0.8251 votes
Q4 20250.9059 votes0.9759 votes0.9659 votes0.9559 votes0.8859 votes0.8459 votes0.7759 votes0.7859 votes
Q1 20260.8270 votes0.8870 votes0.9370 votes0.9270 votes0.8670 votes0.8970 votes0.7470 votes0.7870 votes
Q2 20260.84115 votes0.95115 votes0.94115 votes0.94115 votes0.93115 votes0.81115 votes0.68115 votes0.77115 votes
Q3 20260.9358 votes0.9558 votes0.9758 votes0.9658 votes0.9058 votes0.8158 votes0.7058 votes0.7658 votes
Whole period0.830.940.950.950.910.810.700.77
Votes considered547547546546542547547547

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 0.8354744
Greens 0.9454753
S&D 0.95546135
Renew 0.9554678
EPP 0.91542184
ECR 0.8154784
Patriots 0.7054785
ESN 0.7754727

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.

  • 547 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 16 of 96 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 7 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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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?bucket=quarter&scope=all&topic=foreign-affairs%2Fhuman-rights&to=2026-09-25
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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 — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Human rights abroad (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%2Fhuman-rights&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 — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Human rights abroad (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%2Fhuman-rights&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?bucket=quarter&scope=all&topic=foreign-affairs%2Fhuman-rights&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}
}