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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
Csaba MOLNÁR , S&D · Hungary Their votes against the line	3.6 %	2 073	63	5	6	62
Sabrina REPP , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	3.6 %	2 780	48	48	3	26
Virginijus SINKEVIČIUS , Greens · Lithuania Their votes against the line	3.5 %	2 706	36	46	14	0
Tonino PICULA , S&D · Croatia Their votes against the line	3.5 %	2 814	49	44	6	66
Sebastião BUGALHO , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	3.5 %	2 311	33	48	0	66
Francisco José MILLÁN MON , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.5 %	2 625	73	18	1	73
Ioan-Rareş BOGDAN , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	3.5 %	2 597	83	7	1	7
Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE , Renew · France · left on 11 Oct 2025 Their votes against the line	3.5 %	1 829	55	8	1	50
Maria NOICHL , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	3.5 %	2 704	72	18	4	21
Gabriel MATO , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.5 %	2 483	68	17	1	74
Tomasz FROELICH , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	3.5 %	2 602	9	59	22	0
Pablo ARIAS ECHEVERRÍA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.5 %	2 637	75	15	1	75
Elena NEVADO DEL CAMPO , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.4 %	2 466	61	24	0	58
Marit MAIJ , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	3.4 %	2 848	69	21	8	84
Adrián VÁZQUEZ LÁZARA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.4 %	2 336	65	14	1	50
Konstantinos ARVANITIS , The Left · Greece Their votes against the line	3.4 %	2 140	20	44	9	48
Waldemar BUDA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.4 %	2 228	43	25	8	39
Bernard GUETTA , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.4 %	2 326	58	19	2	0
Thijs REUTEN , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	3.4 %	2 777	68	20	6	80
Hannes HEIDE , S&D · Austria Their votes against the line	3.3 %	2 553	40	41	4	76
Anouk VAN BRUG , Renew · Netherlands Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 413	38	7	2	44
Pernando BARRENA ARZA , The Left · Spain Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 985	33	22	11	0
Tilly METZ , Greens · Luxembourg Their votes against the line	3.3 %	2 798	51	27	15	0
Paulo CUNHA , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	3.3 %	2 682	44	45	0	65
Olivier CHASTEL , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.3 %	2 691	64	23	2	72
Vasile DÎNCU , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	3.3 %	2 405	57	19	3	36
Beata SZYDŁO , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.3 %	2 316	34	36	6	49
Maciej WĄSIK , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.3 %	2 393	37	33	8	47
Katri KULMUNI , Renew · Finland Their votes against the line	3.2 %	2 032	55	11	0	38
Gilles BOYER , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.2 %	2 802	66	23	2	53
Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.2 %	2 472	63	16	1	74
Raúl DE LA HOZ QUINTANO , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.2 %	2 387	65	11	1	61
Pascal CANFIN , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.2 %	2 673	70	15	1	51
Lídia PEREIRA , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	3.2 %	2 336	35	40	0	56
Anna ZALEWSKA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.2 %	2 477	32	44	3	53
Tobiasz BOCHEŃSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.2 %	2 417	32	43	2	49
Dolors MONTSERRAT , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.2 %	2 315	59	12	2	63
Ana VASCONCELOS , Renew · Portugal Their votes against the line	3.1 %	2 482	48	28	2	32
Elisabeth GROSSMANN , S&D · Austria Their votes against the line	3.1 %	2 839	43	41	5	82
Gordan BOSANAC , Greens · Croatia Their votes against the line	3.1 %	2 755	34	41	11	0
Maria GUZENINA , S&D · Finland Their votes against the line	3.1 %	2 435	33	42	1	41
Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.1 %	2 087	53	11	1	50
Sakis ARNAOUTOGLOU , S&D · Greece Their votes against the line	3.1 %	2 827	69	16	3	84
Maravillas ABADÍA JOVER , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.1 %	2 538	59	19	1	75
Paulo DO NASCIMENTO CABRAL , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	3.1 %	2 520	34	44	0	66
Aura SALLA , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	3.1 %	2 311	49	22	0	6
Fernando NAVARRETE ROJAS , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.1 %	2 705	61	21	1	76
Eugen TOMAC , Renew · Romania Their votes against the line	3.1 %	2 122	37	28	0	0
Hilde VAUTMANS , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.1 %	2 654	67	12	2	0
Sérgio HUMBERTO , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	3.0 %	2 598	36	43	0	66

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}
}