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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
Milan MAZUREK changed group , ESN · Slovakia Their votes against the line	15.3 %	2 347	124	202	34	351
Ondřej KRUTÍLEK , ECR · Czechia Their votes against the line	15.3 %	2 070	147	130	39	283
Guillaume PELTIER , ECR · France Their votes against the line	15.3 %	2 026	141	100	68	295
Estelle CEULEMANS , S&D · Belgium Their votes against the line	15.1 %	2 166	242	63	23	130
Pál SZEKERES , Patriots · Hungary · left on 13 Sept 2026 Their votes against the line	15.1 %	1 275	60	128	5	191
Zala ČERNILEC TOMAŠIČ , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line	14.9 %	2 087	275	34	3	252
Tamás DEUTSCH , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	14.9 %	616	17	70	5	90
Tomislav SOKOL , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	14.7 %	2 066	256	42	6	71
Csaba DÖMÖTÖR , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	14.6 %	1 818	74	184	8	258
András LÁSZLÓ , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	14.6 %	1 764	76	173	9	251
Annamária VICSEK , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	14.6 %	1 569	73	150	6	218
Manuela RIPA , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	14.3 %	2 286	270	52	4	0
Zsuzsanna BORVENDÉG , ESN · Hungary Their votes against the line	14.2 %	2 261	75	208	38	0
Jonas SJÖSTEDT , The Left · Sweden Their votes against the line	14.2 %	2 029	107	153	28	282
Stanisław TYSZKA , ESN · Poland Their votes against the line	14.2 %	2 020	105	122	59	269
Viktória FERENC , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	14.1 %	1 545	57	154	7	218
Georgiana TEODORESCU , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line	13.9 %	2 034	134	107	42	71
Céline IMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line	13.8 %	2 188	213	88	2	281
Geadis GEADI , ECR · Cyprus Their votes against the line	13.7 %	1 976	154	82	34	0
Kinga GÁL , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	13.4 %	1 246	37	125	5	163
Alex AGIUS SALIBA , S&D · Malta Their votes against the line	13.1 %	1 499	138	54	5	137
Gheorghe PIPEREA , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line	13.1 %	1 709	114	95	15	89
György HÖLVÉNYI , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	12.9 %	1 447	45	135	7	0
Hanna GEDIN , The Left · Sweden Their votes against the line	12.7 %	2 284	103	159	29	282
Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	12.1 %	2 204	239	23	5	18
Auke ZIJLSTRA , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	12.1 %	1 844	97	85	41	217
Mieke ANDRIESE , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	12.1 %	1 844	97	86	40	218
Ton DIEPEVEEN , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	12.1 %	1 875	99	83	44	222
Zoltán TARR , EPP · Hungary · left on 8 May 2026 Their votes against the line	12.0 %	308	17	20	0	35
João OLIVEIRA , The Left · Portugal Their votes against the line	11.8 %	1 874	119	85	18	0
Cristian TERHEŞ , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line	11.8 %	2 079	124	68	54	0
Rachel BLOM , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	11.7 %	1 974	98	89	44	228
Marko VEŠLIGAJ , S&D · Croatia Their votes against the line	11.5 %	1 993	134	89	7	188
Marieke EHLERS , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	11.5 %	1 952	101	82	42	222
Bert-Jan RUISSEN , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line	11.5 %	2 184	105	127	19	0
Ewa ZAJĄCZKOWSKA-HERNIK changed group , Patriots · Poland Their votes against the line	11.5 %	1 716	66	105	26	183
Taner KABILOV changed group , ECR · Bulgaria in No group for most of the period Their votes against the line	11.4 %	463	42	5	6	24
Sebastian KRUIS , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	11.4 %	1 705	86	71	37	180
Niels Flemming HANSEN , EPP · Denmark Their votes against the line	11.3 %	2 402	214	56	2	0
Daniel ATTARD , S&D · Malta Their votes against the line	11.3 %	2 042	143	86	2	199
Ilia LAZAROV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	11.2 %	1 815	137	62	5	0
Asger CHRISTENSEN , Renew · Denmark Their votes against the line	11.2 %	2 371	192	74	0	211
Thomas BAJADA , S&D · Malta Their votes against the line	11.1 %	1 669	96	89	0	171
Niels FUGLSANG , S&D · Denmark Their votes against the line	11.0 %	2 202	192	44	7	228
Radan KANEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	11.0 %	1 643	75	102	4	0
Christel SCHALDEMOSE , S&D · Denmark Their votes against the line	10.7 %	2 384	191	57	7	255
Gabriella GERZSENYI , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	10.6 %	592	32	30	1	61
Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group , ECR · Czechia in No group for most of the period Their votes against the line	10.6 %	682	40	21	11	0
Alexandr VONDRA , ECR · Czechia Their votes against the line	10.5 %	1 786	68	88	32	175
Romana JERKOVIĆ , S&D · Croatia Their votes against the line	10.5 %	1 683	95	75	7	155

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
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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}
}