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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Luke Ming FLANAGAN

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 votes293All roll calls2 891
Order Highest rate firstBy name

Showing Luke Ming FLANAGAN only. Show every member

Luke Ming FLANAGAN’s votes against the line, 76

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
27 Nov 2025Separate vote on paragraph 262 Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation AgreementAbstainedAgainstThe Left
27 Nov 2025Separate vote on paragraph 260 Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation AgreementAbstainedAgainstThe Left
27 Nov 2025Separate vote on paragraph 259 Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation AgreementAbstainedAgainstThe Left
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 258 — part 5 Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation AgreementAbstainedAgainstThe Left
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 258 — part 4 Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation AgreementAbstainedAgainstThe Left
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 258 — part 3 Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation AgreementAbstainedAgainstThe Left
27 Nov 2025Separate vote on paragraph 255 Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation AgreementAbstainedAgainstThe Left
26 Nov 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2429 as regards origin labelling for fruit and vegetables originating in the non-self-governing territory of Western SaharaForAgainstThe Left
26 Nov 2025Final vote on the provisional agreement Increasing the efficiency of the EU guarantee under the InvestEU Regulation and simplifying reporting requirementsAgainstAbstainedThe Left
25 Nov 2025Recital M — part 1 Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report)AbstainedForThe Left
25 Nov 2025Separate vote on citation 11 Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report)AgainstForThe Left
25 Nov 2025Separate vote on citation 10 Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report)AgainstForThe Left
25 Nov 2025Paragraph 12 — part 1 Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report)AgainstForThe Left
25 Nov 2025Paragraph 8 — part 1 Institutional aspects of the report on the future of European competitiveness (Draghi Report)AgainstForThe Left
13 Nov 2025Final vote Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)AgainstAbstainedThe Left
13 Nov 2025Amendment 87, adding text after recital 7 Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)AgainstForThe Left
13 Nov 2025Amendment 85 to recital 6 Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)AbstainedForThe Left
13 Nov 2025Amendment 84 to recital 2 Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)AgainstForThe Left
13 Nov 2025Amendment 83, adding text after recital 1 Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)AgainstForThe Left
13 Nov 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision Digital Trade Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of SingaporeAbstainedAgainstThe Left
9 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 5 Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024ForAgainstThe Left
8 Oct 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision EC-Côte d’Ivoire Fisheries Partnership Agreement – Protocol on the implementation of the Agreement for 2025-2029ForAgainstThe Left
10 Sept 2025Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 3 Future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policyAbstainedAgainstThe Left
9 Sept 2025Amendment 37 to paragraph 67 Public procurementAbstainedForThe Left
9 Sept 2025Amendment 18 to paragraph 67 Public procurementAbstainedForThe Left
9 Sept 2025Paragraph 46 — part 2 Public procurementForAgainstThe Left
9 Jul 2025Amendment 6 to paragraph 76 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaAgainstForThe Left
9 Jul 2025Amendment 21, adding text after paragraph 23 2023 and 2024 reports on AlbaniaAgainstForThe Left
9 Jul 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 2 Draft amending budget No 1/2025: entering the surplus of the financial year 2024ForAgainstThe Left
8 Jul 2025Separate vote on citation 11 Security of energy supply in the EUAgainstForThe Left
8 Jul 2025Paragraph 49 — part 2 Security of energy supply in the EUAbstainedForThe Left
19 Jun 2025Separate vote on paragraph 6 Dissolution of political parties and the crackdown on the opposition in MaliAbstainedForThe Left
18 Jun 2025Amendment 8 to paragraph 9 2023 and 2024 reports on MoldovaAbstainedAgainstThe Left
18 Jun 2025Separate vote on paragraph 8 2023 and 2024 reports on MoldovaAbstainedForThe Left
18 Jun 2025Final vote — text as a whole The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law reportAbstainedForThe Left
18 Jun 2025Recital G — part 2 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAgainstForThe Left
18 Jun 2025Recital E — part 2 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAgainstForThe Left
18 Jun 2025Amendment 9, adding text after recital A Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedAgainstThe Left
18 Jun 2025Amendment 35, adding text after paragraph 55 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedAgainstThe Left
18 Jun 2025Amendment 29 to paragraph 39 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedAgainstThe Left
18 Jun 2025Amendment 26 to paragraph 34 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedAgainstThe Left
18 Jun 2025Amendment 22 to paragraph 24 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedAgainstThe Left
18 Jun 2025Amendment 19 to paragraph 20 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedAgainstThe Left
18 Jun 2025Amendment 18, adding text after paragraph 19 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedAgainstThe Left
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 19 — part 4 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAgainstForThe Left
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 19 — part 3 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAgainstForThe Left
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 19 — part 2 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAgainstForThe Left
18 Jun 2025Amendment 3 to paragraph 18 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedAgainstThe Left
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 7 — part 2 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedForThe Left
18 Jun 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 1 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedAgainstThe Left
Show all 76 votes
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
17 Jun 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision Termination of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Cameroon on forest law enforcement governance and trade in timber and derived products to the UnionForAgainstThe Left
22 May 2025Amendment 28, adding text after paragraph 19 — part 1 Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2023ForAgainstThe Left
22 May 2025Amendment 4, adding text after recital 10 Modification of customs duties applicable to imports of certain goods originating in or exported from the Russian Federation and the Republic of BelarusAbstainedAgainstThe Left
3 Apr 2025Paragraph 7 — part 2 Immediate risk of further repression by Lukashenka’s regime in Belarus - threats from the Investigative CommitteeAgainstForThe Left
2 Apr 2025Amendment 77 to paragraph 11 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024AgainstForThe Left
2 Apr 2025Amendment 26 to recital U Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForThe Left
2 Apr 2025Amendment 64 to paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AgainstForThe Left
2 Apr 2025Amendment 18 to paragraph 28 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAbstainedThe Left
2 Apr 2025Amendment 32, adding text after paragraph 9 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForThe Left
2 Apr 2025Amendment 30 to paragraph 8 — part 2 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForThe Left
2 Apr 2025Separate vote on paragraph 4, indent 20 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AbstainedAgainstThe Left
2 Apr 2025Amendment 86, adding text after paragraph 22 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIAgainstForThe Left
2 Apr 2025Amendment 83, adding text after paragraph 22 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIAgainstForThe Left
2 Apr 2025Amendment 82, adding text after paragraph 22 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIAgainstForThe Left
12 Mar 2025Amendment 66 to paragraph 62 — part 2 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedForThe Left
12 Mar 2025Amendment 66 to paragraph 62 — part 1 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedForThe Left
12 Mar 2025Amendment 67, adding text after paragraph 61 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedForThe Left
12 Mar 2025Separate vote on paragraph 59 White paper on the future of European defenceAgainstForThe Left
12 Mar 2025Amendment 65, adding text after paragraph 58 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedForThe Left
12 Mar 2025Separate vote on paragraph 57 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedForThe Left
12 Mar 2025Amendment 98, adding text after paragraph 55 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedAgainstThe Left
12 Mar 2025Amendment 11 to paragraph 37 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedForThe Left
12 Mar 2025Separate vote on paragraph 33 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedForThe Left
12 Mar 2025Amendment 48 to paragraph 5 White paper on the future of European defenceAbstainedForThe Left
12 Mar 2025Amendment 23 to paragraph 12 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionAgainstForThe Left
11 Feb 2025Paragraph 27 — part 2 European Central Bank – annual report 2024AbstainedForThe Left

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
Luke Ming FLANAGAN , The Left · Ireland 3.8 %1 977304330

About these figures

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

  • 2 891 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 78 of 371 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 · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Luke Ming FLANAGAN”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=124985&to=2025-12-31 (retrieved 30 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-2026-09-30,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Luke Ming FLANAGAN}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=124985&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=124985&to=2025-12-31},
  urldate = {2026-09-30},
  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}
}