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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
Liesbet SOMMEN , EPP · Belgium Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 331	77	14	3	77
Jérémy DECERLE , Renew · France Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 307	63	28	2	45
Leire PAJÍN , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 093	48	33	3	66
Marco FALCONE , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 143	53	33	0	51
Benoit CASSART , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 418	77	19	1	66
Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 973	47	30	2	76
Borja GIMÉNEZ LARRAZ , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 301	60	31	1	84
Susana SOLÍS PÉREZ , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 931	45	30	2	75
Alexander BERNHUBER , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 118	49	33	2	41
Bruno GONÇALVES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 174	62	15	9	2
Ivaylo VALCHEV , ECR · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.0 %	2 125	14	67	3	0
Janusz LEWANDOWSKI , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	3.9 %	1 855	25	47	1	26
Lukas MANDL , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	3.9 %	2 219	52	34	1	45
Hana JALLOUL MURO , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	3.9 %	2 296	54	32	4	63
Brando BENIFEI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	3.9 %	2 043	63	11	6	43
Gordan BOSANAC , Greens · Croatia Their votes against the line	3.9 %	2 458	36	24	36	0
Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	3.9 %	2 440	55	38	2	69
Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.8 %	2 056	42	33	4	59
Emmanouil KEFALOGIANNIS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	3.8 %	2 283	66	21	0	71
Aura SALLA , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	3.8 %	1 942	58	16	0	25
Hristo PETROV , Renew · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	3.8 %	2 096	54	24	1	22
Dirk GOTINK , EPP · Netherlands Their votes against the line	3.8 %	2 373	62	25	2	0
Urmas PAET , Renew · Estonia Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 924	39	32	1	0
Kristian VIGENIN , S&D · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 183	49	26	6	34
Sophie WILMÈS , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 699	49	13	1	52
Nathalie LOISEAU , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 169	61	18	1	65
Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 171	35	41	4	70
Dominik TARCZYŃSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 415	28	23	1	41
Gilles BOYER , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 433	64	23	2	65
Arkadiusz MULARCZYK , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.6 %	2 057	43	30	2	59
Ivars IJABS , Renew · Latvia Their votes against the line	3.6 %	1 675	49	12	0	0
Caterina CHINNICI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	3.6 %	1 356	42	7	0	42
Marlena MALĄG , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.6 %	2 134	36	38	3	68
Dan NICA , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	3.6 %	1 530	39	7	9	19
Lídia PEREIRA , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	3.6 %	2 254	38	43	0	54
Piotr MÜLLER , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.6 %	1 642	30	27	2	51
Grégory ALLIONE , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.6 %	1 894	58	9	1	44
Olivier CHASTEL , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.6 %	2 034	56	17	0	64
Angelika WINZIG , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	3.6 %	2 249	49	31	0	53
Oihane AGIRREGOITIA MARTÍNEZ , Renew · Spain Their votes against the line	3.6 %	2 421	52	34	0	0
Małgorzata GOSIEWSKA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.5 %	1 730	30	30	1	59
Paulius SAUDARGAS , EPP · Lithuania Their votes against the line	3.5 %	2 399	40	43	1	14
Michał DWORCZYK , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.5 %	1 637	30	24	3	40
Waldemar BUDA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.5 %	1 641	18	32	7	36
Eva MAYDELL , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	3.5 %	432	11	4	0	11
Reinhold LOPATKA , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	3.5 %	2 337	43	38	0	54
Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.5 %	1 418	31	18	0	40
César LUENA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	3.4 %	2 435	50	32	2	69
Beata SZYDŁO , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.4 %	2 069	33	33	5	60
Andi CRISTEA , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	3.4 %	2 220	48	28	0	51

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}
}