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All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Jobs, social affairs & equality (model-assigned) · political groups · per quarter · for and against only

How united do the groups 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 groups 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).
PeriodThe LeftGreensS&DRenewEPPECRPatriotsESN
Q3 2024—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes
Q4 20240.9855 votes1.0055 votes0.9855 votes0.9055 votes0.7555 votes0.9055 votes0.8755 votes0.9455 votes
Q1 20250.9833 votes1.0033 votes0.9933 votes0.6333 votes0.7833 votes0.7333 votes0.9033 votes0.8733 votes
Q2 2025—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes—4 votes
Q3 2025—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes—17 votes
Q4 20250.98154 votes0.99154 votes0.99154 votes0.88154 votes0.70154 votes0.85154 votes0.86154 votes0.92154 votes
Q1 20260.98128 votes0.99128 votes0.98128 votes0.82128 votes0.83128 votes0.86128 votes0.77128 votes0.93127 votes
Q2 20260.9790 votes0.9990 votes0.9790 votes0.9090 votes0.8090 votes0.8290 votes0.6590 votes0.9090 votes
Q3 20260.97119 votes0.99119 votes0.97119 votes0.95119 votes0.75119 votes0.81119 votes0.75119 votes0.91119 votes
Whole period0.970.990.980.870.770.840.790.91
Votes considered606606606606606606606605

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 0.9760644
Greens 0.9960653
S&D 0.98606135
Renew 0.8760678
EPP 0.77606184
ECR 0.8460684
Patriots 0.7960685
ESN 0.9160527

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.
  • 1 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.
  • 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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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?scope=all&topic=social&variant=forAgainst&to=2026-09-25
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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) · political groups · per quarter · for and against only”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?scope=all&topic=social&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.
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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) · political groups · per quarter · for and against only}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?scope=all&topic=social&variant=forAgainst&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?scope=all&topic=social&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}
}