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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 Term202420252026Last 6 months
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Votes Final votes293All roll calls2 891
Order Highest rate firstBy name

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).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Christophe GOMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line31.3 %2 6076851265704
Laurent CASTILLO changed group , Patriots · France in EPP for most of the period Their votes against the line30.5 %2 56964313740
Nadine MORANO , EPP · France Their votes against the line30.1 %2 2825651183584
Galato ALEXANDRAKI , ECR · Greece Their votes against the line29.8 %1 38518619433412
Assita KANKO , ECR · Belgium Their votes against the line29.4 %1 62518827119397
Branko GRIMS changed group , No group · Slovenia in EPP for most of the period Their votes against the line29.4 %2 5565322127365
Isabelle LE CALLENNEC , EPP · France Their votes against the line29.3 %2 4444242911484
Kris VAN DIJCK , ECR · Belgium Their votes against the line29.0 %2 15924035334507
Petras GRAŽULIS , ESN · Lithuania Their votes against the line28.9 %2 300135477530
Céline IMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line28.2 %2 5215851223652
Emmanouil FRAGKOS , ECR · Greece Their votes against the line28.1 %2 43529632959412
François-Xavier BELLAMY , EPP · France Their votes against the line28.0 %2 5495811284639
Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group , ECR · Netherlands in EPP for most of the period Their votes against the line28.0 %2 7195082484600
Ivan DAVID , ESN · Czechia Their votes against the line27.5 %2 4582383051340
Johan VAN OVERTVELDT , ECR · Belgium Their votes against the line27.4 %1 54515524821409
Sander SMIT changed group , ECR · Netherlands in EPP for most of the period Their votes against the line27.3 %2 3334282054600
Ewa ZAJĄCZKOWSKA-HERNIK changed group , Patriots · Poland in ESN for most of the period Their votes against the line24.6 %1 91215026061444
Marcin SYPNIEWSKI , ESN · Poland Their votes against the line24.4 %2 43118331594493
Sebastian TYNKKYNEN , ECR · Finland Their votes against the line23.3 %2 119298111840
Stanisław TYSZKA , ESN · Poland Their votes against the line22.9 %1 53011517066295
Dick ERIXON , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line22.9 %2 48230917782561
Beatrice TIMGREN , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line22.8 %2 49430618082563
Charlie WEIMERS , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line22.5 %2 45629817282544
Joachim STREIT , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line22.4 %2 6074621193558
Engin EROGLU , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line22.1 %2 6324511292540
Kristoffer STORM , ECR · Denmark Their votes against the line22.0 %2 317254184720
Sarah KNAFO , ESN · France Their votes against the line21.6 %2 0741771381340
Fernand KARTHEISER changed group , No group · Luxembourg Their votes against the line21.4 %97210861390
Anja HAZEKAMP , The Left · Netherlands Their votes against the line21.0 %319501250
Milan ZVER , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line19.6 %2 413380893320
Christine SINGER , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line19.2 %2 6523911143485
Milan UHRÍK , ESN · Slovakia Their votes against the line19.1 %2 39813525569344
Alex AGIUS SALIBA , S&D · Malta Their votes against the line18.8 %2 63736511913355
Nicolas BAY , ECR · France Their votes against the line18.8 %2 19821111390400
Milan MAZUREK changed group , ESN · Slovakia Their votes against the line18.6 %2 48312025885344
Ondřej KOVAŘÍK , Patriots · Czechia · left on 30 Jul 2025 Their votes against the line18.5 %842628410144
Miriam LEXMANN , EPP · Slovakia Their votes against the line18.4 %2 40228815310
Michael MCNAMARA , Renew · Ireland Their votes against the line18.4 %2 5282661971125
Alice TEODORESCU MÅWE , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line18.2 %2 4753767220
Laurence TROCHU , ECR · France Their votes against the line17.4 %2 35320211791395
Marion MARÉCHAL , ECR · France Their votes against the line17.3 %2 0061799771333
Ondřej KNOTEK , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line17.3 %2 17113921719362
Jaroslav BŽOCH , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line17.2 %2 11911822720343
Péter MAGYAR , EPP · Hungary · left on 8 May 2026 Their votes against the line17.2 %6575063097
Georg MAYER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line16.9 %1 77913013932297
Klara DOSTALOVA , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line16.9 %2 27314522019372
Jaroslava POKORNÁ JERMANOVÁ , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line16.7 %1 7859918316286
Tomáš KUBÍN , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line16.6 %2 22312122820352
Guillaume PELTIER , ECR · France Their votes against the line16.5 %2 1141869568327
Harald VILIMSKY , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line16.4 %2 19115217335338

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 25 Sept 2026, 03:36 UTC (data stamp f37e5638cded, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&to=2025-12-31
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data version f37e5638cded (25 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
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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 26 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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 — 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 = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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}
}