Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER

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

Showing Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER only. Show every member

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

Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER’s votes against the line, 21

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
15 Sept 2026	Amendment 16, adding text after paragraph 49 The EU Youth Strategy 2019–2027	Abstained	Against	Renew
9 Jul 2026	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 1 Joint communication on humanitarian aid	Abstained	For	Renew
9 Jul 2026	Amendment 3 to recital B The abduction, forced conversion and child marriage of Maria Shahbaz and the protection of girls in Pakistan	Abstained	For	Renew
8 Jul 2026	Separate vote on paragraph 71 2025 Commission report on Ukraine	Against	For	Renew
18 Jun 2026	Amendment 18, adding text after paragraph 4 Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba	For	Against	Renew
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	For	Against	Renew
16 Jun 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain	Against	For	Renew
21 May 2026	Amendment 5 to paragraph 4 Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts	Abstained	For	Renew
20 May 2026	Amendment 34 to paragraph 1, point ad Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly	Against	For	Renew
30 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases?	Against	For	Renew
30 Apr 2026	Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 15 How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases?	For	Against	Renew
30 Apr 2026	Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 3 Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2027 – Section I – European Parliament	For	Against	Renew
29 Apr 2026	Paragraph 5 — part 2 The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report	Abstained	For	Renew
29 Apr 2026	Amendment 93 to recital 22 Simplification of certain requirements and procedures for chemical products	For	Against	Renew
29 Apr 2026	Amendment 105 to Article 2, paragraph 1, point 2, point b Simplification of certain requirements and procedures for chemical products	For	Against	Renew
29 Apr 2026	Amendment 56 to paragraph 202 Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission	Abstained	Against	Renew
28 Apr 2026	Amendment 6 to paragraph 60 Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III	For	Against	Renew
28 Apr 2026	Separate vote on paragraph 124 Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034	Against	For	Renew
28 Apr 2026	Separate vote on paragraph 29 Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034	Against	For	Renew
28 Apr 2026	Separate vote on paragraph 28 Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034	Against	For	Renew
28 Apr 2026	Paragraph 4 — part 1 Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034	Against	For	Renew

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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
Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER , Renew · Austria	1.3 %	1 606	15	6	0	1

About these figures

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

1 755 votes considered (all roll-call 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 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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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256841&scope=all&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
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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256841&scope=all&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 — All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Helmut BRANDSTÄTTER}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256841&scope=all&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=256841&scope=all&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}
}