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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
Emil RADEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	6.8 %	1 849	74	51	1	74
Jeannette BALJEU , Renew · Netherlands Their votes against the line	6.8 %	2 717	140	43	2	179
Marko VEŠLIGAJ , S&D · Croatia Their votes against the line	6.8 %	2 045	69	64	6	103
Arba KOKALARI , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	6.8 %	2 142	114	31	0	143
Benedetta SCUDERI , Greens · Italy Their votes against the line	6.7 %	2 606	116	41	18	153
Tomas TOBÉ , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	6.7 %	2 721	143	39	0	176
Jörgen WARBORN , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	6.7 %	2 739	144	39	0	180
Antonín STANĚK , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	6.7 %	812	14	40	0	0
Billy KELLEHER , Renew · Ireland Their votes against the line	6.6 %	2 600	159	12	1	168
Michał WAWRYKIEWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.6 %	2 480	135	29	0	0
Malik AZMANI , Renew · Netherlands Their votes against the line	6.6 %	2 803	140	43	2	179
Alexander BERNHUBER , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	6.6 %	2 322	102	51	0	76
Krzysztof BREJZA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.6 %	2 346	123	30	1	136
Jessica POLFJÄRD , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line	6.6 %	2 727	141	38	0	179
Claudiu-Richard TÂRZIU , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line	6.5 %	2 411	59	84	14	97
Dragoş BENEA , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	6.5 %	1 711	60	49	2	98
Andrzej HALICKI , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.5 %	2 623	141	28	1	151
Alexander JUNGBLUTH , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	6.4 %	2 715	95	11	69	0
Petar VOLGIN , ESN · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	6.4 %	2 305	62	45	41	42
Iuliu WINKLER , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	6.3 %	2 498	111	42	4	67
Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.3 %	2 728	115	56	0	144
Davor Ivo STIER , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	6.2 %	2 437	127	25	0	84
Anna BRYŁKA changed group , Patriots · Poland Their votes against the line	6.2 %	2 041	30	79	18	112
Andreas GLÜCK , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line	6.2 %	1 882	90	27	0	110
Regina DOHERTY , EPP · Ireland Their votes against the line	6.2 %	2 530	94	61	1	118
Marie-Agnes STRACK-ZIMMERMANN , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line	6.1 %	1 906	87	30	0	105
David CASA , EPP · Malta Their votes against the line	6.1 %	2 658	111	50	1	120
Seán KELLY , EPP · Ireland Their votes against the line	6.1 %	2 733	118	47	1	145
Pierre JOUVET , S&D · France Their votes against the line	6.1 %	2 525	103	37	13	133
Vilis KRIŠTOPANS , Patriots · Latvia Their votes against the line	6.0 %	2 185	39	77	16	0
Karlo RESSLER , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	6.0 %	2 486	94	56	0	79
Nora MEBAREK , S&D · France Their votes against the line	6.0 %	2 652	106	43	11	131
Niels Flemming HANSEN , EPP · Denmark Their votes against the line	6.0 %	2 653	123	36	1	0
Bartłomiej SIENKIEWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.0 %	2 664	119	41	0	140
Tiago MOREIRA DE SÁ , Patriots · Portugal Their votes against the line	5.9 %	2 227	34	85	13	68
Sunčana GLAVAK , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	5.9 %	2 609	74	79	1	70
Cecilia STRADA , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	5.9 %	2 529	99	37	12	31
Majdouline SBAI , Greens · France Their votes against the line	5.8 %	1 761	60	22	20	78
Andrzej BUŁA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.8 %	2 462	104	38	0	130
Nikolina BRNJAC , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	5.8 %	2 222	102	26	0	71
Salvatore DE MEO , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	5.8 %	2 294	85	47	0	84
Giorgos GEORGIOU , The Left · Cyprus Their votes against the line	5.7 %	2 184	28	89	7	0
Abir AL-SAHLANI , Renew · Sweden Their votes against the line	5.7 %	2 471	106	34	0	106
Marie TOUSSAINT , Greens · France Their votes against the line	5.6 %	2 692	96	23	33	117
Raphaël GLUCKSMANN , S&D · France Their votes against the line	5.6 %	2 473	100	31	8	133
Roberts ZĪLE , ECR · Latvia Their votes against the line	5.6 %	1 570	34	41	13	61
Kristian VIGENIN , S&D · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	5.6 %	2 558	90	50	3	86
Matjaž NEMEC , S&D · Slovenia Their votes against the line	5.6 %	2 631	99	33	15	0
Thomas PELLERIN-CARLIN , S&D · France Their votes against the line	5.6 %	2 768	109	35	10	136
Ivars IJABS , Renew · Latvia Their votes against the line	5.5 %	2 444	96	36	3	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: 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 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-2026-09-29,
  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 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}
}