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All roll calls · 26 Mar 2026 – 26 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
Custom dates
Votes Final votes185All roll calls1 752
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 20260.5869 votes0.5669 votes0.6869 votes—0 votes0.5769 votes0.6469 votes0.7169 votes—0 votes0.7469 votes0.6969 votes0.5069 votes0.5469 votes0.8246 votes0.9663 votes—0 votes0.5069 votes0.6960 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.6569 votes0.6869 votes0.7769 votes0.7269 votes0.6969 votes—0 votes0.5169 votes
Q2 20260.501,037 votes0.591,037 votes0.59983 votes—0 votes0.541,037 votes0.571,038 votes0.681,036 votes—0 votes0.651,038 votes0.761,030 votes0.441,037 votes0.511,014 votes0.73393 votes0.55912 votes0.811,029 votes0.431,037 votes0.62701 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.551,037 votes0.531,038 votes0.711,033 votes0.601,036 votes0.661,038 votes—0 votes0.41981 votes
Q3 20260.52645 votes0.59645 votes0.57641 votes—0 votes0.54644 votes0.58645 votes0.65644 votes—0 votes0.65645 votes0.75642 votes0.45645 votes0.53631 votes0.73582 votes0.57600 votes0.81431 votes0.46645 votes0.65628 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.57645 votes0.57645 votes0.74645 votes0.64644 votes0.68645 votes—0 votes0.44645 votes
Whole period0.510.590.59—0.540.580.67—0.650.750.450.520.730.570.810.450.64———0.560.550.720.620.67—0.42
Votes considered1,7511,7511,69301,7501,7521,74901,7521,7411,7511,7141,0211,5751,4601,7511,3890001,7511,7521,7471,7491,75201,695

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 0.511 75120
Belgium 0.591 75122
Bulgaria 0.591 69317
Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Czechia 0.541 75021
Germany 0.581 75295
Denmark 0.671 74915
Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—07
Spain 0.651 75260
Finland 0.751 74115
France 0.451 75181
Greece 0.521 71421
Croatia 0.731 02112
Hungary 0.571 57521
Ireland 0.811 46014
Italy 0.451 75176
Lithuania 0.641 38911
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 0.561 75131
Poland 0.551 75253
Portugal 0.721 74721
Romania 0.621 74933
Sweden 0.671 75221
Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Slovakia 0.421 69515

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.

  • 1 752 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 62 of 247 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 12 258 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 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 · 26 Mar 2026 – 26 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=2026-03-26&scope=all&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 · 26 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026 · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&from=2026-03-26&scope=all&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&from=2026-03-26&scope=all&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}
}