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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Sander SMIT

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 votes185 All roll calls1 755

Order Highest rate first By name

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Group Country Lead committee Topic (model-assigned) Contested votes only (largest side under 80 %)

Sander SMIT’s votes against the line, 28

Every vote in the selection where the member’s position differed from their group’s clear line, newest first.

**Position**: the member’s vote. **Clear line**: the position of at least two thirds of **Group** (at least 10 members voting), the group they sat in on that day.
Date	Vote	Position	Clear line	Group
17 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Strengthening global health resilience in partner countries	For	Against	ECR
17 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Impact of social media and the online environment on young people	Abstained	Against	ECR
17 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sector	Abstained	For	ECR
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified maize MON 87460	Against	For	ECR
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean MON 94313	Against	For	ECR
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean GMB151 x DAS-44406-6	Against	For	ECR
9 Jul 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Feasibility of a 28th tax regime and its potential to support EU competitiveness	Abstained	Against	ECR
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize DP202216 x NK603 x DAS-40278-9 and its sub-combinations DP 202216 x NK603, DP202216 x DAS-40278-9	Against	For	ECR
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified maize NK603 × T25	Against	For	ECR
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Genetically modified soybean MON 87705	Against	For	ECR
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Moldova	Abstained	For	ECR
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Ukraine	Abstained	For	ECR
8 Jul 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision Protection of the environment through criminal law	Against	Abstained	ECR
7 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2025	Abstained	For	ECR
7 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 1/2026: entering the surplus of the financial year 2025	Abstained	For	ECR
18 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Implementation of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD) and risks to the security of supply of medicines	Abstained	For	ECR
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Kosovo	Against	For	ECR
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Bosnia and Herzegovina	Abstained	For	ECR
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Albania	Against	For	ECR
17 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Montenegro	Abstained	For	ECR
17 Jun 2026	Final vote Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast)	Abstained	Against	ECR
16 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole European political parties and foundations – 2026 report on the application of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2025/2445 and on the activities funded	Against	Abstained	ECR
20 May 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response	Abstained	Against	ECR
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Uzbekistan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement	Abstained	For	ECR
29 Apr 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Genetically modified soybean MON 94637	Against	For	ECR
29 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Discharge 2024: European Public Prosecutor’s Office	Abstained	Against	ECR
28 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU	Abstained	Against	ECR
26 Mar 2026	Final vote on the motion for a resolution Union framework for the national calculation of life-cycle global warming potential	Abstained	For	ECR

By member, 1

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
Sander SMIT changed group , ECR · Netherlands	19.3 %	145	10	16	2	25

About these figures

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

185 votes considered (final votes matching the filters; scope).
62 of 247 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=2026-03-25&mep=125325&scope=final&to=2026-09-25
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: 25 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Sander SMIT”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=125325&scope=final&to=2026-09-25 (retrieved 25 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-2026-09-25,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Sander SMIT}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=125325&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=125325&scope=final&to=2026-09-25},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  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}
}