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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025

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 votes293 All roll calls2 891

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
Małgorzata GOSIEWSKA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	2.4 %	2 497	25	33	2	53
Nicola ZINGARETTI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.4 %	2 585	56	6	0	31
Anna STÜRGKH , Renew · Austria Their votes against the line	2.4 %	2 802	50	16	1	44
Manon AUBRY , The Left · France Their votes against the line	2.4 %	2 585	31	25	5	42
Andreas SCHWAB , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.4 %	2 628	51	11	0	20
Thierry MARIANI , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	2.4 %	2 083	14	30	5	4
Diego SOLIER changed group , ECR · Spain Their votes against the line	2.3 %	2 383	17	28	11	41
João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO , Renew · Portugal Their votes against the line	2.3 %	2 072	22	25	1	32
Jana TOOM , Renew · Estonia Their votes against the line	2.3 %	2 510	51	6	1	0
Rada LAYKOVA , ESN · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	2.3 %	2 153	18	20	11	32
Riho TERRAS , EPP · Estonia Their votes against the line	2.3 %	2 392	48	4	2	9
Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE , Renew · Netherlands Their votes against the line	2.2 %	2 808	47	15	0	55
Michal WIEZIK , Renew · Slovakia Their votes against the line	2.2 %	2 467	26	28	0	43
Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER , Renew · Austria Their votes against the line	2.2 %	2 152	34	12	1	44
Hristo PETROV , Renew · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	2.2 %	2 752	52	8	0	13
Monika HOHLMEIER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.2 %	2 111	28	17	1	12
Martin HOJSÍK , Renew · Slovakia Their votes against the line	2.2 %	2 621	32	25	0	47
Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY , Renew · Netherlands Their votes against the line	2.2 %	2 807	43	18	0	55
Elsi KATAINEN , Renew · Finland Their votes against the line	2.1 %	2 709	48	9	1	38
Mariusz KAMIŃSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	2.1 %	2 476	21	28	4	42
Martine KEMP , EPP · Luxembourg Their votes against the line	2.1 %	2 150	37	9	0	42
Marc ANGEL , S&D · Luxembourg Their votes against the line	2.1 %	2 822	41	12	7	0
Leila CHAIBI , The Left · France Their votes against the line	2.1 %	2 588	26	24	5	47
Matteo RICCI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.1 %	2 342	35	10	4	34
Valérie HAYER , Renew · France Their votes against the line	2.1 %	2 684	51	5	0	51
Ľubica KARVAŠOVÁ , Renew · Slovakia Their votes against the line	2.1 %	2 653	35	20	0	45
Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS , Renew · Lithuania Their votes against the line	2.1 %	2 800	45	12	1	0
Isabel SERRA SÁNCHEZ , The Left · Spain Their votes against the line	2.1 %	774	2	12	2	12
Stefano BONACCINI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.1 %	2 664	40	9	6	30
Jens GIESEKE , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.1 %	2 620	44	9	1	20
Charles GOERENS , Renew · Luxembourg Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 514	40	10	1	0
Sandro RUOTOLO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 614	36	12	5	37
Antonio DECARO , S&D · Italy · left on 1 Feb 2026 Their votes against the line	2.0 %	1 684	27	6	1	22
Anthony SMITH , The Left · France Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 638	24	25	4	47
Isabel WISELER-LIMA , EPP · Luxembourg Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 697	43	11	0	42
Sven MIKSER , S&D · Estonia Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 823	20	32	4	38
Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 524	34	15	1	2
Giuseppe LUPO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 832	42	10	4	37
Michał KOBOSKO , Renew · Poland Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 733	28	23	3	0
Irene MONTERO , The Left · Spain Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 385	10	28	9	12
Lucia ANNUNZIATA , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 238	38	3	3	22
Marina MESURE , The Left · France Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 612	20	26	5	48
Kira Marie PETER-HANSEN , Greens · Denmark Their votes against the line	1.9 %	2 723	28	24	1	41
Christian DOLESCHAL , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.9 %	2 468	39	9	0	20
Matthias ECKE , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	1.9 %	2 627	32	15	4	20
Villy SØVNDAL , Greens · Denmark Their votes against the line	1.9 %	2 689	26	23	3	37
Rima HASSAN , The Left · France Their votes against the line	1.9 %	1 759	15	17	2	28
Emma FOURREAU , The Left · France Their votes against the line	1.9 %	2 393	19	23	4	45
Nicolae ȘTEFĂNUȚĂ , Greens · Romania Their votes against the line	1.9 %	1 776	27	2	5	0
Raffaele TOPO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	1.9 %	2 413	30	7	9	22

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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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&to=2025-12-31
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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Data version: 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
Retrieved: 29 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&to=2025-12-31 (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 · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&to=2025-12-31},
  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}
}