Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026 · Michael MCNAMARA

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

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

Michael MCNAMARA’s votes against the line, 15

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 Evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy and follow-up	Against	For	Renew
16 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU’s territorial integrity and critical security and defence infrastructure	Abstained	For	Renew
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Defence readiness and facilitating defence investments and conditions for the defence industry (Omnibus V)	Abstained	For	Renew
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Acceleration of permit-granting for defence readiness projects (Omnibus V)	Abstained	For	Renew
16 Sept 2026	Final vote on the provisional agreement Simplification of intra-EU transfers of defence-related products and simplification of security and defence procurement (Omnibus V)	Abstained	For	Renew
15 Sept 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield	Abstained	For	Renew
15 Sept 2026	Final vote Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances	Against	For	Renew
15 Sept 2026	Final vote Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures	Abstained	For	Renew
8 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole 2025 Commission report on Ukraine	Abstained	For	Renew
7 Jul 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Recommendation on the changing geopolitical situation in East Asia and the need for closer cooperation with like-minded partners in the region	Abstained	For	Renew
18 Jun 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba	Against	For	Renew
20 May 2026	Final vote on the draft Council decision EU-Canada Agreement laying down the conditions for the participation of Canadian legal entities and products originating in Canada to procurement under the SAFE Instrument	Abstained	For	Renew
28 Apr 2026	Final vote — text as a whole Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024	For	Against	Renew
26 Mar 2026	Final vote Non-application of customs duties on imports of certain goods	Against	For	Renew
26 Mar 2026	Final vote Adjustment of customs duties and opening of tariff quotas for the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America	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 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
Michael MCNAMARA , Renew · Ireland	10.1 %	149	6	9	0	2

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=257300&scope=final&to=2026-09-25
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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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 · Michael MCNAMARA”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=257300&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 · Michael MCNAMARA}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=257300&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&mep=257300&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}
}