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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 16 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024

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 Term 2024 2025 2026 Last 6 months

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Votes Final votes66 All roll calls516

Order Highest rate first By name

Group Country Lead committee Topic (model-assigned) Contested votes only (largest side under 80 %)

By member, 695

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).
Member	Against the line	Clear-line votes	Opposite	Abstained	Other	With own party
Andrey KOVATCHEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	0.6 %	469	1	1	1	1
Christine SCHNEIDER , EPP · Germany · left on 25 May 2026 Their votes against the line	0.6 %	471	3	0	0	2
Marion WALSMANN , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	471	3	0	0	3
Nikola MINCHEV , Renew · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	0.6 %	472	3	0	0	0
Oliver SCHENK , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	474	3	0	0	3
Stefan KÖHLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	474	3	0	0	2
Elena SANCHO MURILLO , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	0.6 %	486	2	0	1	1
Marcos ROS SEMPERE , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	0.6 %	489	2	0	1	2
Daniel FREUND , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	495	1	2	0	0
Javier MORENO SÁNCHEZ , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	0.6 %	495	2	0	1	2
Maria OHISALO , Greens · Finland Their votes against the line	0.6 %	495	2	1	0	1
Rasmus ANDRESEN , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	495	2	1	0	0
Mathilde ANDROUËT , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.5 %	385	2	0	0	0
Nikolina BRNJAC , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	0.5 %	390	2	0	0	0
France JAMET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.5 %	391	2	0	0	0
Ville NIINISTÖ , Greens · Finland Their votes against the line	0.5 %	400	1	1	0	1
Arno BAUSEMER , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.5 %	410	2	0	0	0
Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	0.5 %	432	2	0	0	0
Mika AALTOLA , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	0.5 %	441	2	0	0	0
Tomasz FROELICH , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.4 %	448	0	2	0	0
Hannah NEUMANN , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.4 %	459	2	0	0	0
Axel VOSS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.4 %	468	2	0	0	2
Villy SØVNDAL , Greens · Denmark Their votes against the line	0.4 %	472	1	1	0	2
César LUENA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	0.4 %	494	0	0	2	1
Angelika NIEBLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.3 %	304	1	0	0	0
Pascale PIERA , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.3 %	341	0	1	0	0
Julien SANCHEZ , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.3 %	356	0	1	0	0
Stefan BERGER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.3 %	370	1	0	0	1
Ralf SEEKATZ , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.3 %	373	1	0	0	1
Philippe OLIVIER , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.3 %	383	1	0	0	0
Rody TOLASSY , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.3 %	383	0	1	0	0
José CEPEDA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	0.3 %	389	1	0	0	0
Virginie JORON , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.3 %	390	1	0	0	0
Rasa JUKNEVIČIENĖ , EPP · Lithuania Their votes against the line	0.2 %	424	1	0	0	1
Laura BALLARÍN CEREZA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	0.2 %	454	0	1	0	0
Jüri RATAS , EPP · Estonia Their votes against the line	0.2 %	465	1	0	0	0
Verena MERTENS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.2 %	472	1	0	0	1
Rasmus NORDQVIST , Greens · Denmark Their votes against the line	0.2 %	494	0	1	0	1
Anna CAVAZZINI , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.2 %	496	1	0	0	0
Aleksandar NIKOLIC , Patriots · France	0.0 %	377	0	0	0	0
André ROUGÉ , Patriots · France	0.0 %	385	0	0	0	0
Anne-Sophie FRIGOUT , Patriots · France	0.0 %	387	0	0	0	0
Catherine GRISET , Patriots · France	0.0 %	389	0	0	0	0
Fabrice LEGGERI , Patriots · France	0.0 %	385	0	0	0	0
Gilles PENNELLE , Patriots · France	0.0 %	382	0	0	0	0
Hans NEUHOFF , ESN · Germany	0.0 %	342	0	0	0	0
Jean-Paul GARRAUD , Patriots · France	0.0 %	356	0	0	0	0
Jordan BARDELLA , Patriots · France	0.0 %	319	0	0	0	0
Julie RECHAGNEUX , Patriots · France	0.0 %	385	0	0	0	0
Julien LEONARDELLI , Patriots · France	0.0 %	350	0	0	0	0

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 28 Sept 2026, 03:25 UTC (data stamp 5a7357168c2a, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&to=2024-12-31
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version: data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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: 29 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 16 Jul 2024 – 31 Dec 2024”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&to=2024-12-31 (retrieved 29 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&to=2024-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2024-01-01&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 5a7357168c2a (28 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}
}