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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
Dirk GOTINK , EPP · Netherlands Their votes against the line	4.4 %	2 669	87	27	3	0
Liesbet SOMMEN , EPP · Belgium Their votes against the line	4.4 %	2 698	82	32	4	90
Željana ZOVKO , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	4.4 %	2 135	83	9	1	41
Ivaylo VALCHEV , ECR · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 460	36	57	14	0
Ana Miguel PEDRO , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 256	64	34	0	0
Andrey KOVATCHEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 651	80	34	1	93
Nikos PAPANDREOU , S&D · Greece Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 563	87	18	6	76
Reinhold LOPATKA , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 574	56	54	1	91
Günther SIDL , S&D · Austria Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 578	69	36	6	70
Angelika WINZIG , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 700	68	48	0	92
Aurelijus VERYGA , ECR · Lithuania Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 219	27	49	19	0
Romana JERKOVIĆ , S&D · Croatia Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 504	52	51	4	92
Marco TARQUINIO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 668	80	27	7	37
António TÂNGER CORRÊA , Patriots · Portugal Their votes against the line	4.2 %	2 257	29	59	7	68
Claire FITA , S&D · France Their votes against the line	4.2 %	1 901	53	16	11	66
Nikos PAPPAS , The Left · Greece Their votes against the line	4.2 %	1 993	24	50	9	0
Pilar DEL CASTILLO VERA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.2 %	2 238	74	18	1	58
Alessandro ZAN , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	4.1 %	2 642	83	19	7	35
Karin KARLSBRO , Renew · Sweden Their votes against the line	4.1 %	2 740	98	12	3	0
Stanislav STOYANOV , ESN · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.1 %	2 511	34	47	22	47
Bruno GONÇALVES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 372	69	19	7	2
Tsvetelina PENKOVA , S&D · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 397	66	28	2	86
Giusi PRINCI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 722	89	18	2	79
Sophia KIRCHER , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 386	50	45	0	86
Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 415	76	18	2	76
Dominik TARCZYŃSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 517	31	28	1	44
Emma RAFOWICZ , S&D · France Their votes against the line	3.9 %	1 952	47	24	5	71
Chloé RIDEL , S&D · France Their votes against the line	3.9 %	1 788	41	21	7	59
Luke Ming FLANAGAN , The Left · Ireland Their votes against the line	3.8 %	1 977	30	43	3	0
Nicolás PASCUAL DE LA PARTE , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.8 %	2 439	76	15	2	60
Sebastian EVERDING , The Left · Germany · left on 12 Sept 2026 Their votes against the line	3.8 %	2 445	27	47	19	0
Carola RACKETE , The Left · Germany · left on 15 Sept 2025 Their votes against the line	3.8 %	1 504	16	30	11	0
Elena KOUNTOURA , The Left · Greece Their votes against the line	3.8 %	1 967	19	45	10	48
Sophie WILMÈS , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 819	51	16	1	48
Javier ZARZALEJOS , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 573	76	19	1	77
Patryk JAKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 418	43	36	11	44
Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 582	73	22	1	75
Lara WOLTERS , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 428	65	19	6	65
Jean-Marc GERMAIN , S&D · France Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 573	59	26	10	80
Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 737	79	13	9	19
Yannis MANIATIS , S&D · Greece Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 415	67	18	4	80
Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 308	70	14	1	59
Adina VĂLEAN , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 620	80	11	5	4
Caterina CHINNICI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 161	65	14	0	66
Alma EZCURRA ALMANSA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.6 %	743	20	6	1	24
Evelyn REGNER , S&D · Austria Their votes against the line	3.6 %	2 764	51	43	6	87
Hélder SOUSA SILVA , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	3.6 %	2 080	34	41	0	56
Laurence FARRENG , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.6 %	2 608	82	10	2	48
Carmen CRESPO DÍAZ , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.6 %	2 448	70	17	1	78
Andreas SCHIEDER , S&D · Austria Their votes against the line	3.6 %	2 801	50	45	5	89

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}
}