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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
Francesco TORSELLI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	0.6 %	2 439	4	11	0	12
Arno BAUSEMER , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	2 128	9	2	2	0
Christophe BAY , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.6 %	2 295	8	6	0	5
Virginie JORON , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.6 %	2 295	6	8	0	6
Jüri RATAS , EPP · Estonia Their votes against the line	0.6 %	2 720	11	4	1	9
Liudas MAŽYLIS , EPP · Lithuania Their votes against the line	0.6 %	2 733	7	8	1	6
Erik MARQUARDT , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	2 599	6	8	1	3
Mélanie DISDIER , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.6 %	2 274	6	7	0	6
Pascale PIERA , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.6 %	2 309	4	8	1	5
Terry REINTKE , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	2 501	9	5	0	12
André FRANQUEIRA RODRIGUES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	0.6 %	2 686	12	2	1	2
Matthieu VALET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.5 %	1 649	4	4	1	3
Sérgio GONÇALVES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	0.5 %	2 744	12	0	2	2
Pekka TOVERI , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	0.5 %	2 367	12	0	0	3
Irmhild BOSSDORF , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.5 %	2 604	5	2	6	0
Pierre PIMPIE , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.5 %	2 318	4	6	1	5
Isilda GOMES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	0.5 %	2 539	7	2	3	1
Rody TOLASSY , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.5 %	2 167	5	5	0	4
Aleksandar NIKOLIC , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.5 %	2 208	4	6	0	5
Alexandre VARAUT , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.5 %	2 221	5	5	0	5
Mircea-Gheorghe HAVA , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	0.4 %	2 696	9	3	0	5
Pierre-Romain THIONNET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.4 %	2 255	4	6	0	6
Valérie DELOGE , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.4 %	2 257	3	7	0	5
Fabrice LEGGERI , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.4 %	2 267	5	5	0	6
Séverine WERBROUCK , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.4 %	2 315	2	7	1	6
Julie RECHAGNEUX , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.4 %	2 273	4	5	0	5
Catherine GRISET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.4 %	2 312	2	5	2	6
Julien SANCHEZ , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.4 %	2 314	3	6	0	5
Anne-Sophie FRIGOUT , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.4 %	2 158	1	7	0	6
Jean-Paul GARRAUD , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.4 %	2 244	3	5	0	6
Gilles PENNELLE , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.4 %	2 283	2	6	0	5
Mathilde ANDROUËT , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.3 %	2 007	2	5	0	4
Marie-Luce BRASIER-CLAIN , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.3 %	2 321	2	6	0	6
Siegfried MUREŞAN , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	0.3 %	2 633	7	2	0	0
Philippe OLIVIER , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.3 %	1 792	2	3	1	3
Marie DAUCHY , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.3 %	1 850	1	5	0	4
Julien LEONARDELLI , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.3 %	2 177	2	5	0	6
André ROUGÉ , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.3 %	2 211	3	4	0	5
Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	0.3 %	2 694	6	0	1	3
Carla TAVARES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	0.3 %	2 733	5	0	2	2
Ville NIINISTÖ , Greens · Finland Their votes against the line	0.2 %	2 393	1	2	1	1
Maria OHISALO , Greens · Finland Their votes against the line	0.1 %	2 005	2	1	0	1
Bas EICKHOUT , Greens · Netherlands · left on 20 Jun 2026 Their votes against the line	0.1 %	2 731	3	0	1	0
Christine ANDERSON , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.1 %	2 729	2	1	0	0
Sara MATTHIEU , Greens · Belgium Their votes against the line	0.1 %	2 118	1	1	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}
}