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All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Jobs, social affairs & equality (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 votes60All roll calls606
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, 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.

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
Q3 2024—6 votes—6 votes—5 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—6 votes
Q4 20240.5555 votes0.7455 votes0.5153 votes—0 votes0.5055 votes0.6155 votes0.6354 votes—0 votes0.5955 votes0.8555 votes0.4155 votes0.6443 votes0.6328 votes—13 votes0.9352 votes0.4355 votes—9 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.5955 votes0.4155 votes0.7455 votes0.5255 votes0.6255 votes—0 votes0.5055 votes
Q1 20250.4433 votes0.5133 votes0.4333 votes—0 votes0.5133 votes0.4633 votes0.5233 votes—0 votes0.4433 votes0.5833 votes0.3533 votes0.5833 votes0.5732 votes0.5533 votes0.7833 votes0.4233 votes0.5223 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.4333 votes0.5033 votes0.6133 votes0.5133 votes0.4333 votes—0 votes0.6033 votes
Q2 2025—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—0 votes—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—0 votes—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—3 votes—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—0 votes—4 votes
Q3 2025—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes—0 votes—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes—0 votes—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes—7 votes—17 votes—17 votes—16 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes—0 votes—17 votes
Q4 20250.50154 votes0.61154 votes0.57154 votes—0 votes0.43154 votes0.52154 votes0.62154 votes—0 votes0.56154 votes0.78154 votes0.36154 votes0.58154 votes0.49122 votes0.71149 votes0.85154 votes0.43154 votes0.45110 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.53154 votes0.47154 votes0.58154 votes0.58154 votes0.60154 votes—0 votes0.41154 votes
Q1 20260.45128 votes0.61128 votes0.44127 votes—0 votes0.52128 votes0.50128 votes0.58128 votes—0 votes0.53128 votes0.74127 votes0.46128 votes0.4998 votes0.55121 votes0.9182 votes0.80126 votes0.40128 votes0.5429 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.50128 votes0.50128 votes0.65128 votes0.55128 votes0.55128 votes—0 votes0.47125 votes
Q2 20260.4390 votes0.6190 votes0.5558 votes—0 votes0.5590 votes0.5190 votes0.6889 votes—0 votes0.5390 votes0.8087 votes0.5990 votes0.5089 votes—5 votes0.5253 votes0.9090 votes0.4389 votes0.5032 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.5290 votes0.4590 votes0.6790 votes0.5990 votes0.6190 votes—0 votes0.4345 votes
Q3 20260.43119 votes0.64119 votes0.46119 votes—0 votes0.47119 votes0.52119 votes0.64119 votes—0 votes0.55119 votes0.82119 votes0.51119 votes0.58116 votes0.58110 votes0.53112 votes0.8460 votes0.42119 votes0.52115 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.54119 votes0.44119 votes0.68119 votes0.55119 votes0.67119 votes—0 votes0.44119 votes
Whole period0.470.620.50—0.490.520.62—0.550.780.450.560.560.660.850.430.51———0.530.470.650.560.60—0.45
Votes considered606606570060660660406066026065594394535426053380006066066066066060558

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 0.4760620
Belgium 0.6260622
Bulgaria 0.5057017
Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Czechia 0.4960621
Germany 0.5260695
Denmark 0.6260415
Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—07
Spain 0.5560660
Finland 0.7860215
France 0.4560681
Greece 0.5655921
Croatia 0.5643912
Hungary 0.6645321
Ireland 0.8554214
Italy 0.4360576
Lithuania 0.5133811
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 0.5360631
Poland 0.4760653
Portugal 0.6560621
Romania 0.5660633
Sweden 0.6060621
Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Slovakia 0.4555815

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.

  • 606 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 4 of 64 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 4 426 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 Jobs, social affairs & equality (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=social&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 Jobs, social affairs \& equality (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=social&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=social&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}
}