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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
Hermann TERTSCH , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	8.2 %	1 969	67	63	31	131
Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	8.1 %	2 308	80	73	35	180
Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	8.1 %	2 544	152	55	0	151
Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	8.1 %	2 094	72	66	32	167
Loucas FOURLAS , EPP · Cyprus Their votes against the line	8.1 %	1 897	90	61	3	125
Danilo DELLA VALLE , The Left · Italy Their votes against the line	8.1 %	2 563	46	156	6	193
Mario FURORE , The Left · Italy Their votes against the line	8.1 %	2 382	48	140	5	172
Matej TONIN , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line	8.1 %	2 695	193	25	0	0
Barry ANDREWS , Renew · Ireland Their votes against the line	8.0 %	2 222	164	13	1	168
Borys BUDKA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	8.0 %	2 150	122	49	0	139
Łukasz KOHUT , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	7.8 %	2 704	151	61	0	0
Carolina MORACE , The Left · Italy Their votes against the line	7.8 %	2 552	36	158	6	193
Anders VISTISEN , Patriots · Denmark · left on 13 Apr 2026 Their votes against the line	7.8 %	1 995	69	77	10	0
Lynn BOYLAN , The Left · Ireland Their votes against the line	7.8 %	1 908	86	55	8	134
Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	7.8 %	2 168	70	67	32	168
Janusz LEWANDOWSKI , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	7.7 %	2 403	70	116	0	79
Jagna MARCZUŁAJTIS-WALCZAK , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	7.6 %	2 499	151	39	0	163
Jaak MADISON , ECR · Estonia Their votes against the line	7.6 %	2 134	82	35	45	0
Diana RIBA I GINER , Greens · Spain Their votes against the line	7.6 %	2 574	96	67	32	0
Barbara BONTE , Patriots · Belgium Their votes against the line	7.5 %	2 234	45	99	24	165
Giuseppe ANTOCI , The Left · Italy Their votes against the line	7.5 %	2 157	30	128	4	150
Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line	7.5 %	2 587	138	54	2	0
Ignazio Roberto MARINO , Greens · Italy Their votes against the line	7.5 %	2 311	125	31	17	0
Cynthia NÍ MHURCHÚ , Renew · Ireland Their votes against the line	7.5 %	2 766	194	12	1	194
Malika SOREL changed group , No group · France Their votes against the line	7.5 %	536	1	36	3	0
Ewa KOPACZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	7.5 %	2 736	162	42	0	179
Valentina PALMISANO , The Left · Italy Their votes against the line	7.4 %	2 546	39	145	5	176
Tom VANDENDRIESSCHE , Patriots · Belgium Their votes against the line	7.4 %	2 307	50	97	23	161
Afroditi LATINOPOULOU , Patriots · Greece Their votes against the line	7.3 %	1 944	36	100	6	0
Tomasz BUCZEK changed group , Patriots · Poland Their votes against the line	7.3 %	2 053	42	91	16	112
Rihards KOLS , ECR · Latvia Their votes against the line	7.2 %	2 469	99	66	14	61
Reinis POZŅAKS , ECR · Latvia Their votes against the line	7.2 %	2 472	97	68	14	0
Mirosława NYKIEL , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	7.2 %	2 727	148	49	0	168
Nina CARBERRY , EPP · Ireland Their votes against the line	7.2 %	2 733	161	34	1	158
Cristina GUARDA , Greens · Italy Their votes against the line	7.2 %	2 554	128	34	21	153
Irena JOVEVA , Renew · Slovenia Their votes against the line	7.2 %	2 628	160	28	0	13
Moritz KÖRNER , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line	7.1 %	2 744	156	39	1	186
Christel SCHALDEMOSE , S&D · Denmark Their votes against the line	7.1 %	2 735	138	52	5	187
Şerban Dimitrie STURDZA , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line	7.1 %	2 340	63	84	19	97
Asger CHRISTENSEN , Renew · Denmark Their votes against the line	7.1 %	2 543	147	32	1	149
Morten LØKKEGAARD , Renew · Denmark Their votes against the line	7.1 %	2 748	141	52	1	149
Michalis HADJIPANTELA , EPP · Cyprus Their votes against the line	7.0 %	2 537	106	70	2	125
Jan-Christoph OETJEN , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line	7.0 %	2 802	154	42	0	194
Peter AGIUS , EPP · Malta Their votes against the line	7.0 %	2 466	92	79	1	120
Kathleen FUNCHION , The Left · Ireland Their votes against the line	6.9 %	2 543	97	70	9	134
Bart GROOTHUIS , Renew · Netherlands Their votes against the line	6.9 %	2 406	123	41	2	151
Svenja HAHN , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line	6.9 %	2 479	138	33	0	165
Claudiu MANDA , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	6.9 %	1 555	58	47	2	94
Barry COWEN , Renew · Ireland Their votes against the line	6.8 %	2 369	149	12	1	156
Magdalena ADAMOWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.8 %	2 665	138	44	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 28 Sept 2026, 03:25 UTC (data stamp 5a7357168c2a, 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 5a7357168c2a (28 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: 28 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 28 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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-2026-09-28,
  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 = {2026-09-28},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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}
}