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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
Petr BYSTRON , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	1.9 %	2 548	31	12	5	0
Damian BOESELAGER , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	1.8 %	2 758	25	23	3	37
Lucia YAR , Renew · Slovakia Their votes against the line	1.8 %	2 770	28	23	0	47
Ľudovít ÓDOR , Renew · Slovakia Their votes against the line	1.8 %	2 513	28	18	0	41
Ingeborg TER LAAK , EPP · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.8 %	2 732	31	18	1	46
Christian EHLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.8 %	2 406	43	0	1	16
Arash SAEIDI , The Left · France Their votes against the line	1.8 %	2 250	21	17	3	34
Nela RIEHL , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	1.8 %	2 427	23	20	0	38
Joanna SCHEURING-WIELGUS , S&D · Poland Their votes against the line	1.8 %	2 834	39	7	4	36
Damien CARÊME , The Left · France Their votes against the line	1.8 %	2 453	16	22	5	41
Martin SCHIRDEWAN , The Left · Germany Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 516	7	32	5	7
Vytenis Povilas ANDRIUKAITIS , S&D · Lithuania Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 803	28	16	5	3
Stefan BERGER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 476	36	7	0	21
Niclas HERBST , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 602	31	13	1	21
Javi LÓPEZ , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 504	34	6	3	0
Lena SCHILLING , Greens · Austria Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 745	14	31	2	29
Nikola MINCHEV , Renew · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 571	25	19	0	13
Pierfrancesco MARAN , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 577	30	9	5	27
Daniel BUDA , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 580	37	6	1	6
Hildegard BENTELE , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 195	31	6	0	20
Nicolás GONZÁLEZ CASARES , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 682	31	9	5	8
Krzysztof ŚMISZEK , S&D · Poland Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 156	26	6	4	28
Rasmus NORDQVIST , Greens · Denmark Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 816	23	24	0	44
Tineke STRIK , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 784	24	12	10	34
Anna STROLENBERG , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 807	27	17	2	35
Thomas WAITZ , Greens · Austria Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 567	12	29	1	29
Dennis RADTKE , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 420	34	2	3	15
Ilaria SALIS , The Left · Italy Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 172	17	16	2	0
Jeroen LENAERS , EPP · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 738	29	14	1	42
Tom BERENDSEN , EPP · Netherlands · left on 22 Feb 2026 Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 742	26	18	0	43
Pina PICIERNO changed group , Renew · Italy in S&D for most of the period Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 246	30	5	1	0
Dan BARNA , Renew · Romania Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 323	31	5	1	4
Jens GEIER , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 643	32	6	4	24
Tobias CREMER , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 721	34	7	2	23
Markus FERBER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 658	33	7	2	19
Reinier VAN LANSCHOT , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 730	22	19	2	35
René AUST , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 513	17	12	10	0
Peter LIESE , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.5 %	2 588	34	4	2	15
Rasmus ANDRESEN , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	1.5 %	2 535	25	12	2	9
Siegbert Frank DROESE , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	1.5 %	2 483	12	18	8	0
Birgit SIPPEL , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	1.5 %	2 290	29	1	5	10
Estrella GALÁN , The Left · Spain Their votes against the line	1.5 %	2 427	16	17	4	0
Vivien COSTANZO , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	1.5 %	2 826	34	7	2	22
David MCALLISTER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.5 %	2 305	26	9	0	16
Jordan BARDELLA , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.5 %	2 112	24	7	0	3
Anna-Maja HENRIKSSON , Renew · Finland Their votes against the line	1.5 %	2 455	19	17	0	0
Daniel CASPARY , EPP · Germany · left on 28 Feb 2026 Their votes against the line	1.5 %	2 396	30	4	1	20
Pietro FIOCCHI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.5 %	2 062	14	12	4	10
Kai TEGETHOFF , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	1.5 %	2 819	21	17	3	40
Stine BOSSE , Renew · Denmark Their votes against the line	1.5 %	2 754	30	10	0	0

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}
}