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All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic EU institutions & Parliament (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 votes40All roll calls292
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 Q3 2026: Agreement Index from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same).

Q4 2024 → Q3 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 20240.5944 votes0.6244 votes0.7044 votes—0 votes0.5144 votes0.6044 votes0.7044 votes—0 votes0.7644 votes0.6944 votes0.4344 votes0.5144 votes0.7643 votes0.7244 votes0.7544 votes0.5744 votes0.7838 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.6544 votes0.5844 votes0.7944 votes0.7844 votes0.6944 votes—0 votes0.4844 votes
Q1 2025—1 vote—2 votes—1 vote—0 votes—2 votes—2 votes—1 vote—0 votes—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—2 votes—1 vote—2 votes—1 vote—2 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—2 votes—2 votes—1 vote—2 votes—2 votes—0 votes—1 vote
Q2 20250.4856 votes0.5356 votes0.5256 votes—0 votes0.5156 votes0.5656 votes0.6156 votes—0 votes0.6056 votes0.7452 votes0.3456 votes0.4631 votes0.7834 votes0.6156 votes0.7355 votes0.4356 votes0.5346 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.5356 votes0.5856 votes0.6856 votes0.6256 votes0.6156 votes—0 votes0.4256 votes
Q3 2025—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—0 votes—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—0 votes—3 votes—2 votes—3 votes—3 votes—2 votes—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—1 vote—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—3 votes—0 votes—3 votes
Q4 20250.5582 votes0.5282 votes0.6082 votes—0 votes0.5282 votes0.5882 votes0.6882 votes—0 votes0.6882 votes0.7782 votes0.3882 votes0.5382 votes0.6860 votes0.7582 votes0.7181 votes0.4182 votes0.6558 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.5682 votes0.5682 votes0.7182 votes0.6382 votes0.5982 votes—0 votes0.3982 votes
Q1 20260.5350 votes0.6050 votes0.5945 votes—0 votes0.5950 votes0.6250 votes0.7250 votes—0 votes0.6550 votes0.7450 votes0.4150 votes0.5650 votes0.7542 votes0.6227 votes0.8249 votes0.4450 votes0.5948 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.5650 votes0.4550 votes0.7350 votes0.6650 votes0.6550 votes—0 votes0.5050 votes
Q2 20260.5449 votes0.6049 votes0.5449 votes—0 votes0.4949 votes0.6249 votes0.7349 votes—0 votes0.7249 votes0.8549 votes0.3549 votes0.6249 votes—15 votes0.4349 votes0.9149 votes0.3949 votes0.5947 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.5449 votes0.4249 votes0.7749 votes0.5949 votes0.6949 votes—0 votes0.4249 votes
Q3 2026—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—5 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—6 votes
Whole period0.540.570.59—0.530.590.68—0.680.760.390.540.740.640.770.450.63———0.570.530.730.660.64—0.43
Votes considered291292286029229229102922872922672022692882922440002922922912922920291

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 0.5429120
Belgium 0.5729222
Bulgaria 0.5928617
Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Czechia 0.5329221
Germany 0.5929295
Denmark 0.6829115
Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—07
Spain 0.6829260
Finland 0.7628715
France 0.3929281
Greece 0.5426721
Croatia 0.7420212
Hungary 0.6426921
Ireland 0.7728814
Italy 0.4529276
Lithuania 0.6324411
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 0.5729231
Poland 0.5329253
Portugal 0.7329121
Romania 0.6629233
Sweden 0.6429221
Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Slovakia 0.4329115

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.

  • 292 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 75 of 115 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 1 957 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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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Cohesion — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic EU institutions & Parliament (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=institutions&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 EU institutions \& Parliament (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=institutions&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=institutions&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}
}