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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 26 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

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Votes Final votes185 All roll calls1 752

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
Marta WCISŁO , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.2 %	1 662	70	15	2	64
Dariusz JOŃSKI , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.2 %	1 646	72	13	1	66
Andrey NOVAKOV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	5.2 %	1 285	28	39	0	55
Pierre JOUVET , S&D · France Their votes against the line	5.2 %	1 575	64	15	3	65
Barry COWEN , Renew · Ireland Their votes against the line	5.2 %	1 329	64	4	1	64
Tonino PICULA , S&D · Croatia Their votes against the line	5.2 %	1 618	52	27	5	67
Stanislav STOYANOV , ESN · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	5.2 %	1 622	25	46	13	44
Abir AL-SAHLANI , Renew · Sweden Their votes against the line	5.2 %	1 262	58	7	0	36
Maravillas ABADÍA JOVER , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	5.1 %	1 673	48	38	0	83
Murielle LAURENT , S&D · France Their votes against the line	5.1 %	1 639	64	17	3	76
Tobiasz BOCHEŃSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	5.1 %	1 431	34	34	5	50
Flavio TOSI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	5.1 %	1 571	63	17	0	35
Dolors MONTSERRAT , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	5.1 %	1 593	47	34	0	76
Eric SARGIACOMO , S&D · France Their votes against the line	5.1 %	1 613	63	16	3	76
Bartosz ARŁUKOWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.1 %	1 634	67	15	1	62
Nils UŠAKOVS , S&D · Latvia Their votes against the line	5.1 %	1 457	65	0	9	0
Nora MEBAREK , S&D · France Their votes against the line	5.1 %	1 617	65	14	3	74
Javier ZARZALEJOS , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	5.1 %	1 602	51	29	1	70
Mohammed CHAHIM , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	5.0 %	1 109	40	13	3	45
Regina DOHERTY , EPP · Ireland Their votes against the line	5.0 %	1 427	56	14	2	60
Nikos PAPANDREOU , S&D · Greece Their votes against the line	5.0 %	1 309	49	10	7	48
Sigrid FRIIS , Renew · Denmark Their votes against the line	5.0 %	1 672	65	19	0	0
Michał WAWRYKIEWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	5.0 %	1 573	63	15	1	0
Aurore LALUCQ , S&D · France Their votes against the line	5.0 %	1 218	51	8	2	54
Vangelis MEIMARAKIS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	5.0 %	1 258	35	28	0	58
Barry ANDREWS , Renew · Ireland Their votes against the line	5.0 %	1 685	77	6	1	73
Fredis BELERIS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	5.0 %	1 385	37	32	0	60
Jérémy DECERLE , Renew · France Their votes against the line	5.0 %	1 610	54	24	2	38
Ewa KOPACZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	4.9 %	1 667	64	17	1	71
Łukasz KOHUT , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	4.9 %	1 668	66	15	1	0
Ana Miguel PEDRO , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	4.9 %	1 510	42	31	1	0
Michał SZCZERBA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	4.9 %	1 657	61	19	1	57
Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.9 %	861	27	15	0	35
Mariusz KAMIŃSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	4.9 %	1 478	32	40	0	48
Raúl DE LA HOZ QUINTANO , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 487	47	25	0	69
Daniel OBAJTEK , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 322	35	29	0	52
Borys BUDKA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 509	54	17	2	46
Bogdan Andrzej ZDROJEWSKI , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 636	54	24	1	59
Hristo PETROV , Renew · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 367	46	19	1	18
Eugen TOMAC , Renew · Romania Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 081	21	31	0	0
Claire FITA , S&D · France Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 581	60	13	3	67
Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 479	42	29	0	71
Letizia MORATTI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 399	61	6	0	33
Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group , S&D · Greece Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 275	48	7	6	31
Piotr MÜLLER , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 008	26	22	0	44
Fernando NAVARRETE ROJAS , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 660	47	32	0	77
Wouter BEKE , EPP · Belgium Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 640	65	11	2	54
Elisabetta GUALMINI changed group , Renew · Italy Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 430	33	35	0	0
Jacek OZDOBA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 304	34	27	1	42
Krzysztof BREJZA , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	4.8 %	1 663	65	13	1	64

About these figures

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

1 752 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=2026-03-26&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 · 26 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&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 · 26 Mar 2026 – 26 Sept 2026}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&scope=all&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-26&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}
}