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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 16 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024 · Jaak MADISON

Which members voted against their group’s clear line, how often compared with the votes where the group had one, and did they vote with their national party when they did?

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Period Term202420252026Last 6 months
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Votes Final votes66All roll calls516
Order Highest rate firstBy name

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Jaak MADISON’s votes against the line, 42

Every vote in the selection where the member’s position differed from their group’s clear line, newest first.

Position: the member’s vote. Clear line: the position of at least two thirds of Group (at least 10 members voting), the group they sat in on that day.
DateVotePositionClear lineGroup
18 Dec 2024Amendment 11 to paragraph 1, point o Setting up a Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European Union, and defining its responsibilities, numerical strength and term of officeAgainstForECR
18 Dec 2024Amendment 16 to paragraph 4, point 4, point 3 Amendment of Annex VI – Powers and responsibilities of the standing committeesAgainstForECR
18 Dec 2024Amendment 6 to paragraph 1 Amendment of Annex VI – Powers and responsibilities of the standing committeesForAgainstECR
17 Dec 2024Final vote — text as a whole Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023AbstainedForECR
17 Dec 2024Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/002 BE/Limburg machinery and paper – BelgiumAgainstForECR
17 Dec 2024Final vote Specific measures under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) for Member States affected by natural disastersAgainstForECR
28 Nov 2024Final vote — text as a whole Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environmentsAbstainedAgainstECR
28 Nov 2024Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 1 Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environmentsAgainstForECR
27 Nov 2024Final vote on the motion for a resolution Draft amending budget No 5/2024: adjustment in payment appropriations, update of revenues and other technical updatesAgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified maize MON 94804AgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize DP202216AgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize DP23211AgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize DP915635AgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified maize MON 810AgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize MON 89034 × 1507 × MON 88017 × 59122 and eight of its sub-combinationsAgainstForECR
26 Nov 2024Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize MON 89034 × 1507 × NK603AbstainedForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 20 to Annex, guideline 6, paragraph 3 — part 1 Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member StatesAbstainedForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 11 — part 2 Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member StatesAbstainedAgainstECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 50 to paragraph 89 — part 1 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAbstainedForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 50 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForECR
23 Oct 2024Paragraph 41 — part 2 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 62, adding text after paragraph 40 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 34 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 34 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstAbstainedECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 34 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 6, adding text before paragraph 1 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 737 Draft general budget of the European Union for 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 726 Draft general budget of the European Union for 2025 – all sectionsAbstainedForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 315 Draft general budget of the European Union for 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 314 Draft general budget of the European Union for 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 618 Draft general budget of the European Union for 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 313 Draft general budget of the European Union for 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 725 Draft general budget of the European Union for 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 309 Draft general budget of the European Union for 2025 – all sectionsAgainstAbstainedECR
23 Oct 2024Amendment 693 Draft general budget of the European Union for 2025 – all sectionsAbstainedForECR
22 Oct 2024Final vote — text as a whole 2022 discharge: EU general budget – European Council and CouncilAgainstAbstainedECR
22 Oct 2024Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/001 BE/Match-SmatchAgainstForECR
22 Oct 2024Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 4/2024: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to some decentralised agenciesAgainstForECR
22 Oct 2024Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023AbstainedForECR
19 Sept 2024Amendment 1 to recital H — part 1 Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member StatesForAgainstECR
19 Sept 2024Final vote — text as a whole The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’AbstainedForECR
17 Jul 2024Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 8 The need for the EU's continuous support for UkraineAgainstAbstainedECR

By member, 1

Members with at least one vote where their group had a clear line. Order: by rate, for members with at least 300 clear-line votes (the rest follow by name) — not a ranking.

Against the line: votes against the group’s clear line ÷ clear-line votes (votes where the member’s group at the date had a clear line and the member voted); a count below 50. Of the votes against: opposite (for ↔ against), abstained against the line, other (for or against when the line was to abstain), and with own party — with the majority of their national party’s members in the group (at least two voting).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Jaak MADISON , ECR · Estonia 10.7 %393281040

About these figures

What was counted, what was left out, and how.

  • 516 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 15 of 81 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • A vote counts against the group’s line when the group’s clear line — at least two thirds of its votes cast, with at least 10 members voting — was different from the member’s position; a divided group has no line to vote against (method). This is a different rule from group loyalty, which uses the majority line (loyalty).
  • Ordered by rate, only members with at least 300 votes where their group had a clear line are compared; fewer votes make a rate unstable, and below 50 the figure is shown as a count.
  • 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: Voted against the group’s clear line v1, Voted with the group’s majority line v1, Final votes and all roll calls v1, Group at the date of the vote v1.
  • Data as of 29 Sept 2026, 03:29 UTC (data stamp 2b7a29b98b0d, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 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). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 16 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024 · Jaak MADISON”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=197493&to=2024-12-31 (retrieved 29 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 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-2026-09-29,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 16 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024 · Jaak MADISON}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=197493&to=2024-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&mep=197493&to=2024-12-31},
  urldate = {2026-09-29},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 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}
}