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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2026 – 30 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
Pascal ARIMONT , EPP · Belgium Their votes against the line	6.7 %	2 369	93	63	2	0
Mohammed CHAHIM , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	6.6 %	1 850	98	19	5	77
Barry COWEN , Renew · Ireland Their votes against the line	6.5 %	2 062	124	9	1	123
Jaak MADISON , ECR · Estonia Their votes against the line	6.5 %	1 728	29	44	39	0
Nikos PAPANDREOU , S&D · Greece Their votes against the line	6.5 %	1 886	92	23	7	95
Nikos PAPPAS , The Left · Greece Their votes against the line	6.5 %	1 686	36	56	17	0
Sofie ERIKSSON , S&D · Sweden Their votes against the line	6.5 %	2 228	84	55	5	144
Cynthia NÍ MHURCHÚ , Renew · Ireland Their votes against the line	6.4 %	2 060	120	10	1	124
Michalis HADJIPANTELA , EPP · Cyprus Their votes against the line	6.3 %	2 084	85	47	0	95
Hanna GRONKIEWICZ-WALTZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.3 %	1 769	73	38	1	43
Mario FURORE , The Left · Italy Their votes against the line	6.3 %	2 134	58	75	2	120
Li ANDERSSON , The Left · Finland Their votes against the line	6.3 %	2 064	49	54	27	122
Nikolina BRNJAC , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	6.3 %	1 386	74	11	2	54
Tiago MOREIRA DE SÁ , Patriots · Portugal Their votes against the line	6.3 %	1 918	28	77	15	47
Emil RADEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	6.2 %	2 086	71	59	0	72
Irena JOVEVA , Renew · Slovenia Their votes against the line	6.2 %	2 387	127	20	1	25
Saskia BRICMONT , Greens · Belgium Their votes against the line	6.2 %	2 301	63	19	60	0
Krzysztof HETMAN , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.2 %	2 353	95	48	2	90
Salvatore DE MEO , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	6.1 %	2 262	71	67	1	61
Viktor WEISZ , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	6.1 %	798	19	30	0	48
Barry ANDREWS , Renew · Ireland Their votes against the line	6.1 %	2 401	137	9	1	130
Jussi SARAMO , The Left · Finland Their votes against the line	6.1 %	2 323	53	61	28	134
Svenja HAHN , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line	6.1 %	2 346	94	49	0	130
Jagna MARCZUŁAJTIS-WALCZAK , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	6.1 %	2 347	120	21	2	106
Dario TAMBURRANO , The Left · Italy Their votes against the line	6.0 %	2 061	55	68	1	114
Majdouline SBAI , Greens · France Their votes against the line	6.0 %	532	23	6	3	27
António TÂNGER CORRÊA , Patriots · Portugal Their votes against the line	6.0 %	1 351	11	68	2	47
Karlo RESSLER , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	6.0 %	2 058	79	42	2	66
Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	6.0 %	1 407	52	32	0	77
Pilar DEL CASTILLO VERA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	6.0 %	1 727	77	26	0	63
Ana VASCONCELOS , Renew · Portugal Their votes against the line	5.9 %	2 387	76	66	0	117
Željana ZOVKO , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	5.9 %	1 950	104	10	2	61
Jacek PROTAS , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.9 %	2 317	96	40	1	92
Mihai TUDOSE , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	5.9 %	1 759	60	44	0	55
Virginijus SINKEVIČIUS , Greens · Lithuania Their votes against the line	5.9 %	2 286	67	53	15	0
Giuseppe ANTOCI , The Left · Italy Their votes against the line	5.9 %	2 053	51	69	1	114
Mounir SATOURI , Greens · France Their votes against the line	5.9 %	1 862	58	18	33	93
Elżbieta Katarzyna ŁUKACIJEWSKA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.8 %	2 313	111	21	3	97
Kamila GASIUK-PIHOWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.8 %	2 369	112	26	0	101
Danilo DELLA VALLE , The Left · Italy Their votes against the line	5.8 %	2 245	52	76	2	117
Bartłomiej SIENKIEWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.8 %	2 401	120	16	3	80
Yannis MANIATIS , S&D · Greece Their votes against the line	5.8 %	1 780	78	23	2	98
Sunčana GLAVAK , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	5.8 %	2 183	70	52	4	67
Gaetano PEDULLA' , The Left · Italy Their votes against the line	5.7 %	2 262	55	74	1	122
Tilly METZ , Greens · Luxembourg Their votes against the line	5.7 %	2 302	59	18	55	0
Marco TARQUINIO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	5.7 %	1 907	81	21	7	48
Dariusz JOŃSKI , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.6 %	2 372	113	19	1	106
Pasquale TRIDICO , The Left · Italy Their votes against the line	5.6 %	2 271	54	72	1	123
Moritz KÖRNER , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line	5.6 %	2 401	91	43	0	126
Loránt VINCZE , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	5.5 %	2 127	85	32	1	10

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 30 Sept 2026, 03:10 UTC (data stamp 9cd52899184b, 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 9cd52899184b (30 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: 30 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2026 – 30 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 30 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 9cd52899184b (30 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-2026-09-30,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2026 – 30 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 = {2026-09-30},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 9cd52899184b (30 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}
}