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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
Jacek OZDOBA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.0 %	2 301	32	33	4	44
Urmas PAET , Renew · Estonia Their votes against the line	3.0 %	2 759	58	22	2	0
Borja GIMÉNEZ LARRAZ , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.0 %	2 732	63	17	1	73
Arkadiusz MULARCZYK , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.0 %	2 469	38	30	5	45
Sergey LAGODINSKY , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	3.0 %	1 827	19	32	3	8
Sigrid FRIIS , Renew · Denmark Their votes against the line	3.0 %	1 727	33	18	0	0
Markéta GREGOROVÁ , Greens · Czechia Their votes against the line	3.0 %	2 440	33	32	7	0
Benoit CASSART , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	2.9 %	2 373	53	15	2	62
Nora JUNCO GARCÍA changed group , ECR · Spain Their votes against the line	2.9 %	2 373	24	35	11	41
Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	2.9 %	1 883	44	11	0	0
Marlena MALĄG , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	2.9 %	2 447	36	31	4	53
Nathalie LOISEAU , Renew · France Their votes against the line	2.9 %	2 224	47	16	1	53
Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	2.9 %	2 329	34	29	4	44
Marina KALJURAND , S&D · Estonia Their votes against the line	2.9 %	2 817	38	38	5	38
Bogdan RZOŃCA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	2.9 %	2 504	36	33	3	54
Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	2.9 %	2 470	36	31	4	49
Alice KUHNKE , Greens · Sweden Their votes against the line	2.9 %	2 787	44	30	6	70
Paulius SAUDARGAS , EPP · Lithuania Their votes against the line	2.9 %	2 732	63	15	0	6
Susana SOLÍS PÉREZ , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	2.9 %	2 419	52	16	1	61
Sandro GOZI , Renew · France Their votes against the line	2.8 %	2 395	55	12	1	51
Stephen Nikola BARTULICA , ECR · Croatia Their votes against the line	2.8 %	2 280	21	18	25	0
Stéphanie YON-COURTIN , Renew · France Their votes against the line	2.8 %	2 566	61	9	2	53
Michał DWORCZYK , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	2.8 %	1 747	21	26	2	30
Özlem DEMIREL , The Left · Germany Their votes against the line	2.8 %	2 332	27	31	7	15
Isabella LÖVIN , Greens · Sweden Their votes against the line	2.8 %	2 818	43	29	6	73
Markus BUCHHEIT , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	2.7 %	2 558	48	3	19	0
Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI , ECR · Lithuania Their votes against the line	2.7 %	1 613	15	25	4	0
Brigitte VAN DEN BERG , Renew · Netherlands Their votes against the line	2.7 %	2 273	47	14	1	50
Christophe GRUDLER , Renew · France Their votes against the line	2.7 %	2 713	60	12	2	56
Daniel OBAJTEK , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	2.7 %	2 080	29	26	1	41
Mimmo LUCANO , The Left · Italy Their votes against the line	2.7 %	1 118	17	6	7	0
Dario NARDELLA , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.7 %	1 789	38	9	1	25
Brando BENIFEI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.6 %	2 129	42	9	5	36
Mary KHAN , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	2.6 %	2 628	12	42	15	0
Pär HOLMGREN , Greens · Sweden Their votes against the line	2.6 %	2 821	41	27	6	73
Vlad VASILE-VOICULESCU , Renew · Romania Their votes against the line	2.6 %	2 569	41	26	0	4
Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	2.6 %	2 496	33	30	2	52
Grégory ALLIONE , Renew · France Their votes against the line	2.6 %	2 576	56	10	1	52
Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	2.6 %	2 660	58	9	2	61
Rudi KENNES , The Left · Belgium Their votes against the line	2.6 %	2 624	12	55	1	0
Adam BIELAN , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	2.6 %	2 477	30	30	4	46
Fabienne KELLER , Renew · France Their votes against the line	2.6 %	2 740	52	17	1	51
Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ , Renew · Slovakia Their votes against the line	2.5 %	2 473	44	18	0	44
Annalisa CORRADO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.5 %	2 321	39	12	6	31
Tiemo WÖLKEN , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	2.4 %	2 164	41	8	4	13
Valérie DEVAUX , Renew · France Their votes against the line	2.4 %	2 410	49	9	1	0
Giorgio GORI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.4 %	2 704	38	23	5	24
Piotr MÜLLER , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	2.4 %	2 339	24	31	2	45
Elisabetta GUALMINI changed group , Renew · Italy in S&D for most of the period Their votes against the line	2.4 %	2 552	38	21	3	0
Herbert DORFMANN , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	2.4 %	2 730	49	14	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 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}
}