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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 26 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

25 Mar 2026 – today

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
Magdalena ADAMOWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 459	53	6	0	0
Grégory ALLIONE , Renew · France Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 387	47	8	1	38
Urmas PAET , Renew · Estonia Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 239	28	21	1	0
Lukas MANDL , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 663	33	33	1	31
Stéphanie YON-COURTIN , Renew · France Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 151	36	9	1	24
Moritz KÖRNER , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 677	49	18	0	61
Ştefan MUŞOIU , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 488	28	31	0	36
Małgorzata GOSIEWSKA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 467	29	29	0	57
Hélder SOUSA SILVA , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	3.9 %	1 603	29	34	0	29
Dragoş BENEA , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	3.9 %	893	26	9	0	27
Benoit CASSART , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.9 %	1 687	57	8	1	44
Jan-Christoph OETJEN , Renew · Germany Their votes against the line	3.9 %	1 562	44	17	0	60
Dirk GOTINK , EPP · Netherlands Their votes against the line	3.9 %	1 645	43	19	2	0
Fabienne KELLER , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.9 %	1 678	53	11	1	42
Marco FALCONE , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	3.9 %	1 422	32	23	0	31
Oihane AGIRREGOITIA MARTÍNEZ , Renew · Spain Their votes against the line	3.8 %	1 689	36	29	0	0
Eva MAYDELL , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	3.8 %	390	11	4	0	11
Ivaylo VALCHEV , ECR · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	3.8 %	1 449	9	44	2	0
Paulius SAUDARGAS , EPP · Lithuania Their votes against the line	3.8 %	1 666	29	33	1	12
Luke Ming FLANAGAN , The Left · Ireland Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 482	28	27	0	0
Dan NICA , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 137	30	4	8	12
Evelyn REGNER , S&D · Austria Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 691	47	12	3	40
Emmanouil KEFALOGIANNIS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 611	43	16	0	49
Waldemar BUDA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 041	11	24	3	27
Valérie DEVAUX , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.6 %	1 682	48	12	1	0
Alexander BERNHUBER , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	3.6 %	1 555	28	26	2	27
Ivars IJABS , Renew · Latvia Their votes against the line	3.6 %	1 117	32	8	0	0
Andi CRISTEA , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	3.6 %	1 485	31	22	0	33
Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.6 %	1 514	44	10	0	0
Giorgio GORI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	3.5 %	1 557	31	20	4	18
Kristian VIGENIN , S&D · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	3.5 %	1 482	31	15	6	27
Aura SALLA , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	3.5 %	1 379	36	12	0	21
Eero HEINÄLUOMA , S&D · Finland Their votes against the line	3.5 %	1 592	25	30	0	31
Olivier CHASTEL , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.5 %	1 361	39	8	0	42
Sandro GOZI , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.5 %	1 564	44	9	1	42
Sakis ARNAOUTOGLOU , S&D · Greece Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 684	44	11	3	54
Thijs REUTEN , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 660	37	16	4	54
Lara WOLTERS , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 701	38	16	4	55
Csaba MOLNÁR , S&D · Hungary Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 472	37	3	10	33
Gordan BOSANAC , Greens · Croatia Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 712	25	15	18	0
Dario NARDELLA , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 181	22	16	2	26
David CASA , EPP · Malta Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 598	34	19	1	31
Sophie WILMÈS , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 273	36	6	1	37
Sandro RUOTOLO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	3.3 %	897	20	7	3	26
Georgia TRAMACERE , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 630	36	12	6	41
Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ , Renew · Slovakia Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 154	35	3	0	34
Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI , ECR · Lithuania Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 185	18	18	3	0
Maria NOICHL , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 645	39	12	3	22
Reinhold LOPATKA , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 616	27	26	0	35
Adam BIELAN , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 283	17	21	4	27

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 26 Sept 2026, 03:32 UTC (data stamp 579b2832c723, 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=2026-09-26
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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Data version: data version 579b2832c723 (26 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: 26 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&scope=all&to=2026-09-26 (retrieved 26 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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-2026-09-26,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 25 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&scope=all&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-25&scope=all&to=2026-09-26},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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}
}