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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2026 – 29 Sept 2026

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 votes261 All roll calls2 521

Order Highest rate first By name

Group Country Lead committee Topic (model-assigned) Contested votes only (largest side under 80 %)

By member, 698

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
Elisabeth GROSSMANN , S&D · Austria Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 449	29	18	3	43
Günther SIDL , S&D · Austria Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 410	31	15	3	47
Markéta GREGOROVÁ , Greens · Czechia Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 468	22	19	9	0
Damian BOESELAGER , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 260	22	16	7	23
Jeroen LENAERS , EPP · Netherlands Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 412	32	16	0	47
Mary KHAN , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 023	12	19	9	0
Christian DOLESCHAL , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.0 %	1 823	29	5	2	12
Laura BALLARÍN CEREZA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	2.0 %	861	8	9	0	13
Konstantinos ARVANITIS , The Left · Greece Their votes against the line	2.0 %	1 731	10	18	6	20
Vladimir PREBILIČ , Greens · Slovenia Their votes against the line	2.0 %	1 943	10	7	21	0
Markus FERBER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.0 %	2 250	36	8	0	13
Carlo CICCIOLI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.9 %	1 957	16	20	2	23
Marie-Sophie CHRIST , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.9 %	1 546	15	13	2	11
Michele PICARO , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.9 %	2 122	18	20	3	26
Matthieu VALET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.9 %	1 092	7	14	0	17
Christophe BAY , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.9 %	1 459	16	12	0	17
Philippe OLIVIER , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.9 %	1 669	18	14	0	22
Damien CARÊME , The Left · France Their votes against the line	1.9 %	1 680	16	14	2	26
Brigitte VAN DEN BERG , Renew · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.9 %	2 157	39	2	0	37
Lara MAGONI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.9 %	2 110	18	21	1	27
Tsvetelina PENKOVA , S&D · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	1.9 %	2 039	19	15	4	34
Isabella LÖVIN , Greens · Sweden Their votes against the line	1.9 %	1 886	12	21	2	29
Sergio BERLATO , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.8 %	2 176	14	23	3	26
Mika AALTOLA , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	1.8 %	1 809	31	1	1	23
Diego SOLIER changed group , ECR · Spain Their votes against the line	1.8 %	2 154	18	19	2	35
José CEPEDA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.8 %	1 994	20	13	3	29
Nicolae ȘTEFĂNUȚĂ , Greens · Romania Their votes against the line	1.8 %	1 613	12	4	13	0
René REPASI , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	1.8 %	2 399	39	4	0	34
Ľubica KARVAŠOVÁ , Renew · Slovakia Their votes against the line	1.8 %	617	10	1	0	10
Lina GÁLVEZ , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.8 %	1 966	22	9	4	21
Chiara GEMMA , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.8 %	2 142	11	24	3	27
Nicola PROCACCINI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.8 %	1 816	11	21	0	24
Ioan-Rareş BOGDAN , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	1.8 %	1 934	21	12	1	2
Sven MIKSER , S&D · Estonia Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 403	8	33	1	24
Ilhan KYUCHYUK , Renew · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 235	15	24	0	0
Tom BERENDSEN , EPP · Netherlands · left on 22 Feb 2026 Their votes against the line	1.7 %	408	2	5	0	7
Arash SAEIDI , The Left · France Their votes against the line	1.7 %	1 458	15	8	2	21
Nicolás GONZÁLEZ CASARES , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.7 %	1 941	23	4	6	15
Mathilde ANDROUËT , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.7 %	1 947	13	20	0	26
Rody TOLASSY , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.7 %	1 717	12	15	2	22
Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER , Renew · Austria Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 252	24	14	0	15
Giovanni CROSETTO , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 015	11	20	3	25
Raquel GARCÍA HERMIDA-VAN DER WALLE , Renew · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 440	39	2	0	36
Anna STÜRGKH , Renew · Austria Their votes against the line	1.7 %	1 073	12	6	0	15
Jutta PAULUS , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 334	14	18	7	8
Stefano CAVEDAGNA , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.7 %	1 975	9	22	2	24
Catherine GRISET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.7 %	1 741	11	18	0	25
Alexandre VARAUT , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.7 %	1 812	13	17	0	24
Denis NESCI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.7 %	2 178	16	20	0	26
Marc ANGEL , S&D · Luxembourg Their votes against the line	1.6 %	2 365	27	8	4	0

About these figures

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

2 521 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
81 of 342 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=2026-01-01&to=2026-12-31
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 2026 – 29 Sept 2026”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&to=2026-12-31 (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 2026 – 29 Sept 2026}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&to=2026-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&to=2026-12-31},
  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}
}