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Cohesion

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Enlargement & neighbourhood (model-assigned) · political groups · per quarter · abstentions counted

How united do the groups vote — over time, and on the votes of each committee or topic?

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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 groups 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).
PeriodThe LeftGreensS&DRenewEPPECRPatriotsESN
Q4 20240.6228 votes0.9528 votes0.9428 votes0.9628 votes0.9428 votes0.7428 votes0.4328 votes0.7928 votes
Q1 2025—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes—18 votes
Q2 20250.8066 votes0.9766 votes0.9666 votes0.9766 votes0.9066 votes0.6866 votes0.6266 votes0.8666 votes
Q3 20250.8486 votes0.9686 votes0.9586 votes0.9586 votes0.8886 votes0.7986 votes0.6886 votes0.8686 votes
Q4 2025—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes
Q1 2026—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes—9 votes
Q2 20260.8281 votes0.9781 votes0.9581 votes0.9481 votes0.8781 votes0.7481 votes0.7481 votes0.8281 votes
Q3 20260.7271 votes0.9471 votes0.9571 votes0.9571 votes0.9571 votes0.6371 votes0.7471 votes0.8271 votes
Whole period0.760.960.950.950.900.710.680.83
Votes considered368368368368368368368368

Over the whole selection

Each group’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.
GroupCohesionVotes countedSeats
The Left 0.7636844
Greens 0.9636853
S&D 0.95368135
Renew 0.9536878
EPP 0.90368184
ECR 0.7136884
Patriots 0.6836885
ESN 0.8336827

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.

  • 368 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 3 of 35 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 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.
  • 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 Enlargement & neighbourhood (model-assigned) · political groups · per quarter · abstentions counted”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?scope=all&topic=foreign-affairs%2Fenlargement&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 Enlargement \& neighbourhood (model-assigned) · political groups · per quarter · abstentions counted}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?scope=all&topic=foreign-affairs%2Fenlargement&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?scope=all&topic=foreign-affairs%2Fenlargement&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}
}