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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
Kim VAN SPARRENTAK , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.4 %	2 772	17	14	9	36
Alessandra MORETTI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	1.4 %	2 579	25	6	6	25
Catarina VIEIRA , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.4 %	2 798	16	16	8	32
Delara BURKHARDT , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	1.4 %	1 761	13	8	4	5
Robert BIEDROŃ , S&D · Poland Their votes against the line	1.4 %	2 851	30	6	4	37
Ralf SEEKATZ , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.4 %	2 496	25	9	1	25
Kathleen VAN BREMPT , S&D · Belgium Their votes against the line	1.4 %	2 684	27	4	6	16
Vladimir PREBILIČ , Greens · Slovenia Their votes against the line	1.4 %	2 687	13	12	12	0
Sabine VERHEYEN , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.4 %	1 966	23	4	0	17
Lena DÜPONT , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.4 %	2 204	23	7	0	20
Leire PAJÍN , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.4 %	2 801	21	11	6	17
César LUENA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.4 %	2 516	27	5	2	17
Verena MERTENS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 371	13	19	0	14
Cristina MAESTRE , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 608	30	4	1	16
Nicola PROCACCINI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 239	11	16	3	12
Jonás FERNÁNDEZ , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 691	31	4	1	20
Norbert LINS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 619	29	6	0	24
Lara MAGONI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 398	14	17	1	16
José CEPEDA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 630	30	4	1	21
Jérémy DECERLE , Renew · France Their votes against the line	1.3 %	605	5	3	0	3
Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 529	26	5	2	18
Ilhan KYUCHYUK , Renew · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 768	27	9	0	0
Sandra GÓMEZ LÓPEZ , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 463	23	4	5	18
René REPASI , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 581	23	7	3	22
Martin GÜNTHER , The Left · Germany Their votes against the line	1.3 %	1 019	2	10	1	12
Andrea WECHSLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 635	20	13	0	22
Gabriele BISCHOFF , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 738	22	10	2	18
Michael BLOSS , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 742	26	7	1	12
Gheorghe FALCĂ , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 370	24	4	1	3
Marion WALSMANN , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 624	28	4	0	24
Martin HÄUSLING , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 721	14	19	0	14
Niels GEUKING , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 726	16	17	0	0
Michele PICARO , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 321	12	15	1	13
Ana Catarina MENDES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 404	22	4	3	1
Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ , S&D · Lithuania Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 832	26	4	4	3
Catarina MARTINS , The Left · Portugal Their votes against the line	1.2 %	1 751	13	8	0	0
Angelika NIEBLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 675	30	2	0	18
Irene TINAGLI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 782	20	9	4	23
Marcos ROS SEMPERE , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 470	23	4	2	19
Michael GAHLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 572	26	3	1	15
Laura BALLARÍN CEREZA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 676	21	9	1	19
Sven SIMON , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 162	25	0	0	14
Giuseppe MILAZZO , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 153	5	7	1	6
Katarina BARLEY , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	2 136	12	11	1	9
Bruno TOBBACK , S&D · Belgium Their votes against the line	1.1 %	2 780	25	4	2	16
Paolo INSELVINI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.1 %	2 383	6	18	2	12
Elena DONAZZAN , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.1 %	2 311	10	14	1	13
Idoia MENDIA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.1 %	2 726	19	6	4	19
Axel VOSS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 999	20	1	0	18
Hana JALLOUL MURO , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.0 %	2 120	14	7	1	9

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
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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}
}