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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 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 Term202420252026Last 6 months
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Votes Final votes261All roll calls2 521
Order Highest rate firstBy name

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).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Assita KANKO , ECR · Belgium Their votes against the line34.2 %1 35816327427445
Johan VAN OVERTVELDT , ECR · Belgium Their votes against the line34.1 %1 26814826222421
Kris VAN DIJCK , ECR · Belgium Their votes against the line31.7 %2 12524738641578
Branko GRIMS changed group , No group · Slovenia in EPP for most of the period Their votes against the line27.3 %1 7623701047203
Emmanouil FRAGKOS , ECR · Greece Their votes against the line26.1 %2 17625325858419
Miriam LEXMANN , EPP · Slovakia Their votes against the line25.2 %2 25934621760
Christophe GOMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line24.3 %2 214439973320
Ivan DAVID , ESN · Czechia Their votes against the line23.9 %2 183194279480
Galato ALEXANDRAKI , ECR · Greece Their votes against the line22.6 %1 86016920546419
Dick ERIXON , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line22.3 %2 13824216470472
Charlie WEIMERS , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line22.0 %2 16023816770467
Beatrice TIMGREN , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line21.9 %2 14424216068467
Petras GRAŽULIS , ESN · Lithuania Their votes against the line21.6 %1 900132253250
Sarah KNAFO , ESN · France Their votes against the line21.5 %1 672154151550
Sebastian TYNKKYNEN , ECR · Finland Their votes against the line21.3 %1 88125174760
Joachim STREIT , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line21.1 %1 752285850353
Kristoffer STORM , ECR · Denmark Their votes against the line20.8 %2 084210154690
Jaroslav KNOT , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line20.7 %1 41311616016279
Isabelle LE CALLENNEC , EPP · France Their votes against the line20.2 %2 2432122384289
Alice TEODORESCU MÅWE , EPP · Sweden Their votes against the line19.8 %1 9153116450
Jana NAGYOVÁ , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line19.7 %1 41011414519269
Jaroslav BŽOCH , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line19.4 %1 87913620722355
Ondřej KNOTEK , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line19.3 %1 79613019522338
Nadine MORANO , EPP · France Their votes against the line19.1 %2 290343923332
Jaroslava POKORNÁ JERMANOVÁ , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line18.6 %1 92512621023345
Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line18.6 %2 16118319624343
Michael MCNAMARA , Renew · Ireland Their votes against the line18.2 %1 995234129192
Sander SMIT changed group , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line18.0 %2 11117918022343
Christine SINGER , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line18.0 %2 204315810353
Engin EROGLU , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line17.9 %2 2422971040364
François-Xavier BELLAMY , EPP · France Their votes against the line17.6 %2 105274925284
Klara DOSTALOVA , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line17.6 %1 1108410011191
Henrik DAHL , EPP · Denmark Their votes against the line17.3 %2 4073515690
Tomáš KUBÍN , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line17.1 %1 87810119624314
Marcin SYPNIEWSKI , ESN · Poland Their votes against the line17.0 %2 32916216271280
András GYÜRK , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line16.7 %72045732119
Nicolas BAY , ECR · France Their votes against the line16.4 %2 10815611772326
Harald VILIMSKY , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line16.3 %1 97110619223304
Enikő GYŐRI , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line16.2 %1 534751668237
Laurence TROCHU , ECR · France Their votes against the line16.1 %2 15015811870338
Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line15.9 %98553977153
Marion MARÉCHAL , ECR · France Their votes against the line15.8 %2 05213912165307
Roman HAIDER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line15.8 %1 97410818222306
Veronika VRECIONOVÁ , ECR · Czechia Their votes against the line15.8 %1 92914512534270
Petra STEGER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line15.7 %1 96210718022304
Elisabeth DIERINGER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line15.7 %1 97210618321306
Gerald HAUSER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line15.7 %1 9349918223299
Milan UHRÍK , ESN · Slovakia Their votes against the line15.6 %2 35112320835351
Georg MAYER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line15.5 %1 83710016420283
Milan ZVER , EPP · Slovenia Their votes against the line15.4 %2 185285484251

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 25 Sept 2026, 03:36 UTC (data stamp f37e5638cded, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-01-01&to=2026-12-31
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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
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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2026 – 26 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 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 — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2026 – 26 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 = {2026-09-26},
  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}
}