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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
Georg MAYER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	15.0 %	1 370	69	118	18	204
Nicolas BAY , ECR · France Their votes against the line	14.4 %	1 422	102	60	43	192
Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line	14.3 %	1 486	67	125	20	160
Annamária VICSEK , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	14.2 %	1 262	63	113	3	171
Laurence TROCHU , ECR · France Their votes against the line	14.1 %	1 470	105	62	41	202
Céline IMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line	14.1 %	1 571	152	69	1	207
Gheorghe PIPEREA , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line	14.0 %	1 419	97	89	12	80
João OLIVEIRA , The Left · Portugal Their votes against the line	13.9 %	1 315	102	64	17	0
András LÁSZLÓ , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	13.8 %	1 293	58	118	3	174
Guillaume PELTIER , ECR · France Their votes against the line	13.7 %	1 379	97	51	41	180
Marion MARÉCHAL , ECR · France Their votes against the line	13.5 %	1 368	87	61	37	174
Tomislav SOKOL , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	13.5 %	1 387	163	21	3	36
Csaba DÖMÖTÖR , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	13.4 %	1 280	55	113	3	166
Jonas SJÖSTEDT , The Left · Sweden Their votes against the line	13.3 %	1 500	77	97	25	193
Zsuzsanna BORVENDÉG , ESN · Hungary Their votes against the line	13.2 %	1 565	46	139	21	0
Stanisław TYSZKA , ESN · Poland Their votes against the line	13.1 %	1 479	71	79	44	178
Estelle CEULEMANS , S&D · Belgium Their votes against the line	12.9 %	1 450	129	40	18	93
Cristian TERHEŞ , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line	12.4 %	1 417	97	44	34	0
Hanna GEDIN , The Left · Sweden Their votes against the line	12.3 %	1 615	73	99	26	193
Sander SMIT changed group , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line	12.2 %	1 399	55	98	18	160
Kinga GÁL , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	12.2 %	950	24	90	2	116
Bert-Jan RUISSEN , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line	12.2 %	1 495	79	89	14	0
Viktória FERENC , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	12.1 %	1 076	38	89	3	130
Ilia LAZAROV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	12.0 %	1 461	121	50	5	0
Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	12.0 %	1 477	158	15	4	16
Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group , ECR · Czechia in No group for most of the period Their votes against the line	11.8 %	492	36	13	9	0
Geadis GEADI , ECR · Cyprus Their votes against the line	11.7 %	1 328	82	52	22	0
Auke ZIJLSTRA , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	11.5 %	1 261	62	54	29	140
Taner KABILOV changed group , ECR · Bulgaria in No group for most of the period Their votes against the line	11.4 %	463	42	5	6	24
Ton DIEPEVEEN , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	11.4 %	1 299	63	53	32	145
Sebastian KRUIS , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	11.4 %	1 379	70	55	32	144
Mieke ANDRIESE , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	11.4 %	1 258	60	54	29	141
Alex AGIUS SALIBA , S&D · Malta Their votes against the line	11.3 %	817	67	24	1	68
Radan KANEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	11.1 %	1 118	63	57	4	0
Niels Flemming HANSEN , EPP · Denmark Their votes against the line	11.0 %	1 675	142	41	2	0
Rachel BLOM , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	11.0 %	1 387	63	58	32	150
Niels FUGLSANG , S&D · Denmark Their votes against the line	11.0 %	1 684	147	33	5	174
Marieke EHLERS , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	10.9 %	1 373	66	54	30	148
Christel SCHALDEMOSE , S&D · Denmark Their votes against the line	10.6 %	1 630	134	33	5	172
Afroditi LATINOPOULOU , Patriots · Greece Their votes against the line	10.4 %	1 326	43	77	18	0
György HÖLVÉNYI , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	10.4 %	955	25	72	2	0
Alexandr VONDRA , ECR · Czechia Their votes against the line	10.3 %	1 154	43	54	22	111
Maria GRAPINI , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	10.2 %	1 601	77	81	6	0
Aldo PATRICIELLO , Patriots · Italy Their votes against the line	10.0 %	361	11	19	6	32
Gabriella GERZSENYI , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	9.8 %	489	20	27	1	47
Rihards KOLS , ECR · Latvia Their votes against the line	9.7 %	1 253	60	52	10	93
Şerban Dimitrie STURDZA , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line	9.7 %	1 417	75	55	7	76
Isabella TOVAGLIERI , Patriots · Italy Their votes against the line	9.7 %	1 035	32	52	16	91
Asger CHRISTENSEN , Renew · Denmark Their votes against the line	9.5 %	1 638	105	51	0	124
Claudiu-Richard TÂRZIU , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line	9.5 %	1 474	85	47	8	76

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&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&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&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&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}
}