Analysis

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?

Cite

Export

Period Term 2024 2025 2026 Last 6 months

Custom dates

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
Borys BUDKA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	4.7 %	2 160	76	24	2	68
Seán KELLY , EPP · Ireland Their votes against the line	4.7 %	2 416	93	19	2	96
Christophe GRUDLER , Renew · France Their votes against the line	4.7 %	2 144	71	29	1	54
Carmen CRESPO DÍAZ , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.7 %	2 025	50	43	2	89
Magdalena ADAMOWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	4.7 %	2 133	86	14	0	0
Andrey NOVAKOV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.7 %	2 007	42	52	0	72
Marit MAIJ , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	4.7 %	2 458	83	27	5	99
Maravillas ABADÍA JOVER , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.7 %	2 376	59	50	2	104
Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.7 %	1 955	53	36	2	79
Vangelis MEIMARAKIS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.6 %	1 878	53	34	0	79
Fredis BELERIS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.6 %	2 042	57	37	0	83
Gabriel MATO , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.6 %	2 131	57	39	2	92
Sakis ARNAOUTOGLOU , S&D · Greece Their votes against the line	4.6 %	2 417	85	23	3	102
Letizia MORATTI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	4.6 %	1 968	80	10	0	55
Eleonora MELETI , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.6 %	2 015	58	34	0	84
Claudiu MANDA , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	4.5 %	904	25	15	1	29
Andrzej HALICKI , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	4.5 %	2 103	76	19	0	76
Rada LAYKOVA , ESN · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.5 %	2 039	30	46	16	52
Ana Miguel PEDRO , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	4.5 %	2 240	61	36	3	0
Laurent CASTILLO changed group , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	4.4 %	1 440	31	33	0	0
Javier ZARZALEJOS , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.4 %	2 323	61	39	3	88
Jacek OZDOBA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	4.4 %	1 941	43	37	6	51
Eero HEINÄLUOMA , S&D · Finland Their votes against the line	4.4 %	2 328	43	60	0	48
Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	4.4 %	2 090	48	40	4	66
Nora JUNCO GARCÍA changed group , ECR · Spain Their votes against the line	4.4 %	1 982	37	43	7	35
Dolors MONTSERRAT , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.4 %	2 330	56	44	2	97
Bogdan RZOŃCA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	4.4 %	2 158	49	42	3	70
Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 210	54	40	2	93
Lara WOLTERS , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 453	76	25	5	97
Tomasz FROELICH , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 339	10	76	15	0
Alexander JUNGBLUTH , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 357	54	21	26	0
Francisco José MILLÁN MON , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.3 %	2 374	59	40	2	90
Thijs REUTEN , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	4.2 %	2 402	73	24	5	96
Victor NEGRESCU , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	4.2 %	1 888	35	45	0	49
Fernando NAVARRETE ROJAS , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.2 %	2 391	57	42	2	97
Hélder SOUSA SILVA , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	4.2 %	2 335	46	52	0	60
Eugen TOMAC , Renew · Romania Their votes against the line	4.2 %	1 769	40	34	0	0
Riho TERRAS , EPP · Estonia Their votes against the line	4.2 %	1 973	71	11	0	19
Daniel OBAJTEK , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	4.2 %	1 829	40	34	2	57
Elisabetta GUALMINI changed group , Renew · Italy Their votes against the line	4.1 %	1 907	41	38	0	0
Katri KULMUNI , Renew · Finland Their votes against the line	4.1 %	2 054	72	13	0	34
Dimitris TSIODRAS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.1 %	2 105	52	35	0	85
Raúl DE LA HOZ QUINTANO , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.1 %	2 215	55	34	2	87
Laurence FARRENG , Renew · France Their votes against the line	4.1 %	2 277	83	9	1	51
Georgios AFTIAS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.1 %	2 008	48	34	0	79
Mariusz KAMIŃSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	4.1 %	2 163	38	49	1	58
Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI , ECR · Lithuania Their votes against the line	4.1 %	1 797	36	29	8	0
Maciej WĄSIK , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	4.1 %	2 119	41	38	7	63
Dragoş BENEA , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 411	44	13	0	45
David CASA , EPP · Malta Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 330	64	29	1	40

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).

Export

Cite

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

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 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

Cite as

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.

BibTeX

@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}
}