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Final votes · 1 Jan 2026 – 29 Sept 2026 · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted

How united do the delegations 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 votes261All roll calls2 521
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 delegations per quarter, Q1 2026 to Q3 2026: Agreement Index from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same).

Q1 2026 → 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).
PeriodAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCyprusCzechiaGermanyDenmarkEstoniaSpainFinlandFranceGreeceCroatiaHungaryIrelandItalyLithuaniaLuxembourgLatviaMaltaNetherlandsPolandPortugalRomaniaSwedenSloveniaSlovakia
Q1 20260.6089 votes0.6589 votes0.6688 votes—0 votes0.6289 votes0.6489 votes0.7489 votes—0 votes0.7289 votes0.7789 votes0.5789 votes0.5387 votes0.8977 votes0.8163 votes0.7875 votes0.6289 votes0.7761 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.6489 votes0.6589 votes0.7989 votes0.8089 votes0.6889 votes—0 votes0.5487 votes
Q2 20260.5599 votes0.6499 votes0.7095 votes—0 votes0.6699 votes0.61100 votes0.7398 votes—0 votes0.70100 votes0.8096 votes0.5799 votes0.48100 votes0.8750 votes0.6187 votes0.8199 votes0.5999 votes0.7760 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.6099 votes0.64100 votes0.7599 votes0.77100 votes0.73100 votes—0 votes0.5396 votes
Q3 20260.5872 votes0.6172 votes0.6672 votes—0 votes0.6871 votes0.6372 votes0.6772 votes—0 votes0.6972 votes0.7572 votes0.5972 votes0.5571 votes0.8966 votes0.6367 votes0.8246 votes0.6472 votes0.7769 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.6072 votes0.6672 votes0.7672 votes0.7772 votes0.6872 votes—0 votes0.6172 votes
Whole period0.580.640.67—0.650.630.72—0.700.780.570.510.880.670.800.610.77———0.610.650.770.780.70—0.56
Votes considered260260255025926125902612572602581932172202601900002602612602612610255

Over the whole selection

Each delegation’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.
DelegationCohesionVotes countedSeats
Austria 0.5826020
Belgium 0.6426022
Bulgaria 0.6725517
Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Czechia 0.6525921
Germany 0.6326195
Denmark 0.7225915
Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—07
Spain 0.7026160
Finland 0.7825715
France 0.5726081
Greece 0.5125821
Croatia 0.8819312
Hungary 0.6721721
Ireland 0.8022014
Italy 0.6126076
Lithuania 0.7719011
Luxembourg fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Latvia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Malta fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Netherlands 0.6126031
Poland 0.6526153
Portugal 0.7726021
Romania 0.7826133
Sweden 0.7026121
Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Slovakia 0.5625515

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.

  • 261 votes considered (final votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 81 of 342 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 1 819 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.
  • A delegation’s cohesion reflects the mix of groups its members sit in. Delegations with fewer than 10 seats are shown but not compared.
  • 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 29 Sept 2026, 03:29 UTC (data stamp 2b7a29b98b0d, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 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 · 1 Jan 2026 – 29 Sept 2026 · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&from=2026-01-01&to=2026-12-31 (retrieved 29 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 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-2026-09-29,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Cohesion — Final votes · 1 Jan 2026 – 29 Sept 2026 · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&from=2026-01-01&to=2026-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&from=2026-01-01&to=2026-12-31},
  urldate = {2026-09-29},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 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}
}