Analysis
Cohesion
Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Road & vehicles (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · for and against only
How united do the delegations vote — over time, and on the votes of each committee or topic?
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.
No delegation has 20 votes counted in any single quarter of this selection, so there is no line to draw — see the whole period or all roll calls.
Over the whole selection
Each delegation’s Agreement Index over every vote in the selection where enough of its members voted.
| Delegation | Cohesion | Votes counted | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | — | 8 | 20 |
| Belgium | — | 8 | 22 |
| Bulgaria | — | 8 | 17 |
| Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared | — | 0 | 6 |
| Czechia | — | 8 | 21 |
| Germany | — | 8 | 95 |
| Denmark | — | 8 | 15 |
| Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared | — | 0 | 7 |
| Spain | — | 8 | 60 |
| Finland | — | 8 | 15 |
| France | — | 8 | 81 |
| Greece | — | 8 | 21 |
| Croatia | — | 6 | 12 |
| Hungary | — | 7 | 21 |
| Ireland | — | 8 | 14 |
| Italy | — | 8 | 76 |
| Lithuania | — | 4 | 11 |
| Luxembourg fewer than 10 seats — not compared | — | 0 | 6 |
| Latvia fewer than 10 seats — not compared | — | 0 | 9 |
| Malta fewer than 10 seats — not compared | — | 0 | 6 |
| Netherlands | — | 8 | 31 |
| Poland | — | 8 | 53 |
| Portugal | — | 8 | 21 |
| Romania | — | 8 | 33 |
| Sweden | — | 8 | 21 |
| Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared | — | 0 | 9 |
| Slovakia | — | 7 | 15 |
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.
- 8 votes considered (final votes matching the filters; scope).
- 5 of 13 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
- 56 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).
Sources & citation
Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.
- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Data version
- 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
- Retrieved
- 25 September 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Cohesion — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Road & vehicles (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · for and against only”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&topic=transport%2Froad&variant=forAgainst&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.
BibTeX
@misc{epw-analysis-2026-09-25,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Cohesion — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Road \& vehicles (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · for and against only}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&topic=transport%2Froad&variant=forAgainst&to=2026-09-25}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&topic=transport%2Froad&variant=forAgainst&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}
}