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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · 1 Jan 2026 – 26 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 100 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
Emmanouil FRAGKOS , ECR · Greece Their votes against the line	49.3 %	215	33	51	22	84
Galato ALEXANDRAKI , ECR · Greece Their votes against the line	48.0 %	175	28	38	18	84
Jana NAGYOVÁ , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	41.3 %	155	35	19	10	64
Beatrice TIMGREN , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line	40.7 %	216	51	15	22	87
Jaroslav BŽOCH , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	40.7 %	189	40	27	10	75
Ondřej KNOTEK , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	40.7 %	177	38	24	10	70
Dick ERIXON , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line	40.1 %	212	49	14	22	85
Charlie WEIMERS , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line	39.5 %	215	49	15	21	85
Jaroslava POKORNÁ JERMANOVÁ , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	39.1 %	192	38	26	11	73
Tomáš KUBÍN , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	38.5 %	187	37	24	11	71
Jaroslav KNOT , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	37.8 %	148	30	18	8	55
Sebastian TYNKKYNEN , ECR · Finland Their votes against the line	37.4 %	179	42	9	16	0
Klara DOSTALOVA , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	36.8 %	106	18	16	5	38
Kristoffer STORM , ECR · Denmark Their votes against the line	36.5 %	208	41	13	22	0
Sarah KNAFO , ESN · France Their votes against the line	34.1 %	185	22	24	17	0
Antonín STANĚK , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	33.7 %	196	25	33	8	0
Petras GRAŽULIS , ESN · Lithuania Their votes against the line	29.1 %	203	19	31	9	0
Nikos PAPPAS , The Left · Greece Their votes against the line	28.4 %	148	9	22	11	0
João OLIVEIRA , The Left · Portugal Their votes against the line	28.3 %	180	20	20	11	0
Marion MARÉCHAL , ECR · France Their votes against the line	27.8 %	205	12	29	16	55
Laurence TROCHU , ECR · France Their votes against the line	27.5 %	211	16	26	16	57
Guillaume PELTIER , ECR · France Their votes against the line	27.3 %	194	17	19	17	49
Nicolas BAY , ECR · France Their votes against the line	25.7 %	206	12	24	17	52
Merja KYLLÖNEN , The Left · Finland Their votes against the line	23.1 %	195	18	7	20	29
Harald VILIMSKY , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	22.7 %	198	19	20	6	42
Sander SMIT changed group , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line	22.6 %	208	14	30	3	43
Christophe GOMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line	22.2 %	221	27	22	0	23
Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line	22.2 %	212	15	29	3	43
Assita KANKO , ECR · Belgium Their votes against the line	22.1 %	154	17	11	6	32
Petra STEGER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	21.8 %	188	18	17	6	39
Gerald HAUSER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	21.6 %	190	16	18	7	40
Jorge MARTÍN FRÍAS , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	21.3 %	169	18	16	2	35
Roman HAIDER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	20.8 %	197	17	18	6	41
Marcin SYPNIEWSKI , ESN · Poland Their votes against the line	20.7 %	241	15	16	19	39
Elisabeth DIERINGER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	20.6 %	194	17	18	5	40
Veronika VRECIONOVÁ , ECR · Czechia Their votes against the line	20.5 %	190	20	9	10	33
Joachim STREIT , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line	20.2 %	173	26	9	0	32
Kris VAN DIJCK , ECR · Belgium Their votes against the line	19.8 %	212	18	16	8	37
Stanisław TYSZKA , ESN · Poland Their votes against the line	19.4 %	217	9	17	16	39
Hermann TERTSCH , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	19.3 %	140	14	11	2	25
Georg MAYER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	19.3 %	187	17	14	5	36
Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	19.2 %	198	19	17	2	37
Johan VAN OVERTVELDT , ECR · Belgium Their votes against the line	18.9 %	111	8	9	4	21
Li ANDERSSON , The Left · Finland Their votes against the line	18.8 %	181	9	10	15	34
Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	18.8 %	192	18	16	2	35
Jussi SARAMO , The Left · Finland Their votes against the line	18.6 %	204	9	13	16	36
Ondřej KRUTÍLEK , ECR · Czechia Their votes against the line	18.6 %	204	19	8	11	34
Branko GRIMS changed group , No group · Slovenia in EPP for most of the period Their votes against the line	18.5 %	173	14	18	0	13
Majbritt BIRKHOLM , Patriots · Denmark Their votes against the line	18.3 %	126	7	13	3	0
Anja HAZEKAMP , The Left · Netherlands Their votes against the line	18.0 %	189	8	11	15	0

About these figures

What was counted, what was left out, and how.

261 votes considered (final 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 100 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 25 Sept 2026, 03:36 UTC (data stamp f37e5638cded, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&scope=final&to=2026-12-31
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version: data version f37e5638cded (25 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: 26 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 1 Jan 2026 – 26 Sept 2026”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&scope=final&to=2026-12-31 (retrieved 26 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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-2026-09-26,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 1 Jan 2026 – 26 Sept 2026}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&scope=final&to=2026-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&scope=final&to=2026-12-31},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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}
}