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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 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 votes185 All roll calls1 755

Order Highest rate first By name

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

By member, 695

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
Markus BUCHHEIT , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 517	23	1	14	0
Nikola MINCHEV , Renew · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 639	27	13	1	18
Elena KOUNTOURA , The Left · Greece Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 120	8	16	4	15
Rasmus ANDRESEN , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 562	17	10	12	6
Vivien COSTANZO , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 695	40	2	0	33
Elisabeth GROSSMANN , S&D · Austria Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 697	27	12	3	36
Matjaž NEMEC , S&D · Slovenia Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 374	23	8	3	0
Alessandra MORETTI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 659	29	10	2	36
Sérgio HUMBERTO , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 661	14	27	0	32
Hana JALLOUL MURO , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 582	24	13	2	23
Giuseppe MILAZZO , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.4 %	613	6	9	0	9
Christian EHLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 432	30	3	2	4
Pina PICIERNO changed group , Renew · Italy in S&D for most of the period Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 433	27	6	2	0
Sophia KIRCHER , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 359	19	14	0	24
Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	2.4 %	619	11	4	0	5
Vasile DÎNCU , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 655	30	8	2	14
Pernando BARRENA ARZA , The Left · Spain Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 332	11	17	4	0
Jana TOOM , Renew · Estonia Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 548	27	9	1	0
Anna STROLENBERG , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 717	31	7	3	33
Isabel SERRA SÁNCHEZ , The Left · Spain Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 466	9	23	3	31
Udo BULLMANN , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 636	32	6	1	29
Markus FERBER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 649	33	6	0	12
René REPASI , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 667	37	2	0	31
Stephen Nikola BARTULICA , ECR · Croatia Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 412	9	12	12	0
Jeroen LENAERS , EPP · Netherlands Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 676	28	11	0	38
Mika AALTOLA , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 209	26	1	1	19
Andreas SCHWAB , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 385	28	3	1	6
Petr BYSTRON , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 604	26	7	4	0
Sebastião BUGALHO , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 566	15	21	0	23
Jens GIESEKE , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 667	27	10	1	7
Alice KUHNKE , Greens · Sweden Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 718	16	16	7	36
Michele PICARO , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 455	13	17	3	22
Pietro FIOCCHI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 238	10	17	1	16
César LUENA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 685	25	12	1	26
Carlo CICCIOLI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 311	11	17	1	19
Pär HOLMGREN , Greens · Sweden Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 722	14	17	7	37
Annalisa CORRADO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 094	12	8	4	21
Lara MAGONI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 462	13	18	1	22
Christian DOLESCHAL , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 248	20	5	2	9
Leire PAJÍN , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 549	20	12	1	23
Paulo CUNHA , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 655	13	22	0	24
Stefano CAVEDAGNA , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 420	8	20	2	21
Reinier VAN LANSCHOT , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 713	26	7	3	33
Nela RIEHL , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 714	27	8	1	31
Mary KHAN , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 429	10	14	6	0
Tobias CREMER , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 626	29	4	1	27
José CEPEDA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 495	17	11	3	26
Nicola PROCACCINI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 352	9	19	0	21
Giovanni CROSETTO , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.0 %	1 423	9	17	3	21
Marc ANGEL , S&D · Luxembourg Their votes against the line	2.0 %	1 623	23	7	3	0

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&scope=all&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 — All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 25 Sept 2026”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&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}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&scope=all&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&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}
}