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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · 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 100 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
Galato ALEXANDRAKI , ECR · Greece Their votes against the line	52.0 %	148	32	43	2	77
Emmanouil FRAGKOS , ECR · Greece Their votes against the line	51.9 %	235	48	67	7	77
Charlie WEIMERS , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line	41.3 %	230	59	25	11	94
Dick ERIXON , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line	40.8 %	233	61	23	11	93
Beatrice TIMGREN , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line	40.3 %	236	60	24	11	95
Petras GRAŽULIS , ESN · Lithuania Their votes against the line	40.0 %	245	26	62	10	0
Kristoffer STORM , ECR · Denmark Their votes against the line	39.7 %	214	48	30	7	0
Sebastian TYNKKYNEN , ECR · Finland Their votes against the line	34.4 %	192	45	12	9	0
João OLIVEIRA , The Left · Portugal Their votes against the line	31.9 %	182	14	32	12	0
Sarah KNAFO , ESN · France Their votes against the line	30.9 %	220	27	24	17	0
Tomáš KUBÍN , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	29.0 %	224	24	37	4	64
Klara DOSTALOVA , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	28.6 %	227	24	36	5	63
Ondřej KNOTEK , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	28.5 %	221	23	35	5	62
Jaroslav BŽOCH , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	28.2 %	216	22	34	5	60
Jaroslava POKORNÁ JERMANOVÁ , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	27.4 %	186	18	29	4	51
Gerald HAUSER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	27.3 %	231	23	30	10	61
Petra STEGER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	27.1 %	221	25	26	9	59
Jana NAGYOVÁ , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	26.8 %	224	22	34	4	59
Jaroslav KNOT , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	26.8 %	112	11	16	3	30
Nicolas BAY , ECR · France Their votes against the line	26.6 %	222	30	18	11	57
Laurence TROCHU , ECR · France Their votes against the line	26.5 %	226	28	20	12	58
Georg MAYER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	26.4 %	197	23	22	7	51
Roman HAIDER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	26.0 %	235	24	28	9	61
Guillaume PELTIER , ECR · France Their votes against the line	25.6 %	207	28	16	9	50
Elisabeth DIERINGER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	25.5 %	231	24	26	9	59
Marion MARÉCHAL , ECR · France Their votes against the line	25.2 %	206	28	15	9	51
Anders VISTISEN , Patriots · Denmark · left on 13 Apr 2026 Their votes against the line	25.2 %	214	18	31	5	0
Harald VILIMSKY , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	25.2 %	218	20	27	8	54
Ewa ZAJĄCZKOWSKA-HERNIK changed group , Patriots · Poland in ESN for most of the period Their votes against the line	24.4 %	213	17	32	3	48
Marcin SYPNIEWSKI , ESN · Poland Their votes against the line	23.9 %	268	19	38	7	52
Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group , ECR · Czechia in Patriots for most of the period Their votes against the line	22.0 %	223	15	30	4	0
Hermann TERTSCH , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	21.8 %	188	18	20	3	33
Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	20.3 %	222	22	20	3	45
Jorge MARTÍN FRÍAS , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	20.1 %	149	17	12	1	30
Ton DIEPEVEEN , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	20.0 %	215	15	22	6	42
Mireia BORRÁS PABÓN , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	20.0 %	210	21	18	3	42
Stanisław TYSZKA , ESN · Poland Their votes against the line	19.8 %	126	6	13	6	23
Merja KYLLÖNEN , The Left · Finland Their votes against the line	19.7 %	234	17	14	15	27
Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	19.3 %	223	21	19	3	43
Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	19.1 %	230	21	20	3	44
Veronika VRECIONOVÁ , ECR · Czechia Their votes against the line	19.1 %	236	25	15	5	41
Ondřej KRUTÍLEK , ECR · Czechia Their votes against the line	18.6 %	236	22	16	6	41
Marieke EHLERS , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	18.6 %	226	16	20	6	41
Auke ZIJLSTRA , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	18.5 %	233	16	22	5	43
Christophe GOMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line	18.3 %	251	17	29	0	36
Kris VAN DIJCK , ECR · Belgium Their votes against the line	18.3 %	202	15	18	4	30
Ivan DAVID , ESN · Czechia Their votes against the line	18.3 %	268	6	30	13	0
Assita KANKO , ECR · Belgium Their votes against the line	18.1 %	155	12	12	4	23
Sebastiaan STÖTELER , Patriots · Netherlands · left on 11 Nov 2025 Their votes against the line	17.9 %	117	8	11	2	19
Rachel BLOM , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	17.9 %	212	13	19	6	37

About these figures

What was counted, what was left out, and how.

293 votes considered (final 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 100 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 26 Sept 2026, 03:32 UTC (data stamp 579b2832c723, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&scope=final&to=2025-12-31
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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Data version: data version 579b2832c723 (26 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: 26 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&scope=final&to=2025-12-31 (retrieved 26 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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-2026-09-26,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&scope=final&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&scope=final&to=2025-12-31},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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}
}