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All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Discharge & spending control (model-assigned) · 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 votes21All roll calls273
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, Q4 2024 to Q2 2026: Agreement Index from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same).

Q4 2024 → Q2 2026; each panel highlights one series, the others faint behind it.

Dashed: a period with fewer than 20 votes counted (no value) between two that have one.

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
Q4 2024—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—0 votes—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—0 votes—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—0 votes—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—0 votes—3 votes
Q2 20250.50149 votes0.62149 votes0.55149 votes—0 votes0.56149 votes0.59149 votes0.66149 votes—0 votes0.67149 votes0.79149 votes0.34149 votes0.56149 votes0.73136 votes0.52149 votes0.88149 votes0.46149 votes0.58132 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.56149 votes0.48149 votes0.71149 votes0.63149 votes0.65149 votes—0 votes0.42149 votes
Q4 2025—11 votes—11 votes—11 votes—0 votes—11 votes—11 votes—11 votes—0 votes—11 votes—11 votes—11 votes—11 votes—0 votes—11 votes—11 votes—11 votes—11 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—11 votes—11 votes—11 votes—11 votes—11 votes—0 votes—11 votes
Q2 20260.50110 votes0.59110 votes0.57110 votes—0 votes0.52110 votes0.59110 votes0.71110 votes—0 votes0.70110 votes0.81110 votes0.34110 votes0.59110 votes—2 votes0.44109 votes0.89110 votes0.35110 votes0.60110 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.51110 votes0.41110 votes0.77110 votes0.55110 votes0.66110 votes—0 votes0.36109 votes
Whole period0.500.600.56—0.540.590.69—0.690.800.340.570.730.490.880.410.59———0.540.440.740.600.66—0.39
Votes considered273273273027327327302732732732731382722732732530002732732732732730272

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 0.5027320
Belgium 0.6027322
Bulgaria 0.5627317
Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Czechia 0.5427321
Germany 0.5927395
Denmark 0.6927315
Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—07
Spain 0.6927360
Finland 0.8027315
France 0.3427381
Greece 0.5727321
Croatia 0.7313812
Hungary 0.4927221
Ireland 0.8827314
Italy 0.4127376
Lithuania 0.5925311
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 0.5427331
Poland 0.4427353
Portugal 0.7427321
Romania 0.6027333
Sweden 0.6627321
Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Slovakia 0.3927215

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.

  • 273 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 9 of 30 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 1 795 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 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 — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Discharge & spending control (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=budget%2Fdischarge&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 Discharge \& spending control (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=budget%2Fdischarge&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=budget%2Fdischarge&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}
}