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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2026 – 28 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
Rima HASSAN , The Left · France Their votes against the line	1.4 %	2 000	12	14	1	20
Séverine WERBROUCK , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.3 %	1 482	9	11	0	19
Charles GOERENS , Renew · Luxembourg Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 378	12	20	0	0
Michael BLOSS , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 453	18	10	5	9
Sven SIMON , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 009	26	0	1	5
Robert BIEDROŃ , S&D · Poland Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 456	29	3	1	28
Julie RECHAGNEUX , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.3 %	1 732	9	14	0	23
Javi LÓPEZ , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.3 %	1 587	18	2	1	0
Alessandro CIRIANI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.3 %	1 980	7	19	0	26
Andrea WECHSLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 380	18	13	0	16
Kathleen VAN BREMPT , S&D · Belgium Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 331	23	6	1	15
Anna-Maja HENRIKSSON , Renew · Finland Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 189	12	16	0	0
Gheorghe FALCĂ , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	1.3 %	2 117	22	5	0	4
Alexandra GEESE , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 162	9	17	1	12
Rasa JUKNEVIČIENĖ , EPP · Lithuania Their votes against the line	1.2 %	1 850	22	1	0	2
Kira Marie PETER-HANSEN , Greens · Denmark Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 096	7	18	1	15
Bernd LANGE , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 321	26	2	0	13
Julien SANCHEZ , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.2 %	1 771	11	10	0	18
Francisco ASSIS , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 151	14	10	1	2
Norbert HERHAMMER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	614	5	2	0	6
Marion WALSMANN , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	2 402	20	7	0	17
David MCALLISTER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	2 075	15	5	3	4
Tineke STRIK , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.1 %	2 166	12	9	3	14
Bruno TOBBACK , S&D · Belgium Their votes against the line	1.1 %	2 266	19	5	1	15
Hildegard BENTELE , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	2 184	20	4	0	11
Dennis RADTKE , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 826	14	3	3	10
Martin GÜNTHER , The Left · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 740	7	9	3	9
Jean-Paul GARRAUD , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 708	5	13	0	16
Kim VAN SPARRENTAK , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.0 %	2 098	13	9	0	17
Norbert LINS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.0 %	2 389	17	7	1	18
Catarina MARTINS , The Left · Portugal Their votes against the line	1.0 %	2 232	11	9	3	0
Hannah NEUMANN , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	1.0 %	2 437	9	13	3	13
Catarina VIEIRA , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.0 %	2 066	11	10	0	17
Mario MANTOVANI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 491	0	15	0	13
Pascale PIERA , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 410	9	5	0	12
Daniel CASPARY , EPP · Germany · left on 28 Feb 2026 Their votes against the line	1.0 %	407	3	1	0	0
Michael GAHLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.0 %	2 350	19	4	0	12
Thomas WAITZ , Greens · Austria Their votes against the line	1.0 %	2 464	8	13	3	13
Fabrice LEGGERI , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 778	7	9	1	16
Stefan KÖHLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	2 403	16	6	0	16
France JAMET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.9 %	1 537	6	8	0	8
Anne-Sophie FRIGOUT , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.9 %	1 656	7	8	0	14
Dainius ŽALIMAS , Renew · Lithuania Their votes against the line	0.9 %	2 433	20	1	1	0
Martin HÄUSLING , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	2 328	7	11	3	7
Sabine VERHEYEN , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	2 247	15	5	0	12
Daniel FREUND , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	2 474	9	10	3	8
Valérie HAYER , Renew · France Their votes against the line	0.9 %	2 363	18	2	1	16
Villy SØVNDAL , Greens · Denmark Their votes against the line	0.9 %	2 388	7	14	0	15
Jordan BARDELLA , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.9 %	1 391	8	3	1	1
Lena SCHILLING , Greens · Austria Their votes against the line	0.9 %	2 336	7	11	2	13

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 28 Sept 2026, 03:25 UTC (data stamp 5a7357168c2a, 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
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version: data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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: 28 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2026 – 28 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 28 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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-2026-09-28,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2026 – 28 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 = {2026-09-28},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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}
}