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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 27 Mar 2026 – 28 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

27 Mar 2026 – today

Votes Final votes172 All roll calls1 683

Order Highest rate first By name

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

By member, 694

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
Elisabeth GROSSMANN , S&D · Austria Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 628	27	11	3	35
Christian EHLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 360	29	3	2	4
Herbert DORFMANN , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 606	38	2	0	0
Anna STROLENBERG , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 652	31	7	3	33
Matjaž NEMEC , S&D · Slovenia Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 374	23	8	3	0
Markus FERBER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 578	33	6	0	12
Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 622	22	18	0	20
Mika AALTOLA , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	2.5 %	1 140	26	1	1	19
Stephen Nikola BARTULICA , ECR · Croatia Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 350	9	12	12	0
Isabel SERRA SÁNCHEZ , The Left · Spain Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 395	9	22	3	30
Andreas SCHWAB , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 315	28	3	1	6
Jeroen LENAERS , EPP · Netherlands Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 604	28	11	0	38
Lucia ANNUNZIATA , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 531	25	10	2	26
Sebastião BUGALHO , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 494	15	21	0	23
Pernando BARRENA ARZA , The Left · Spain Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 332	11	17	4	0
Alessandra MORETTI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 590	29	8	1	33
Jens GIESEKE , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 595	27	10	1	7
Michele PICARO , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.4 %	1 392	13	17	3	22
Elena KOUNTOURA , The Left · Greece Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 067	6	15	4	13
Pina PICIERNO changed group , Renew · Italy Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 367	25	6	1	0
Vivien COSTANZO , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 629	36	2	0	29
Pietro FIOCCHI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 178	10	16	1	16
Christian DOLESCHAL , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 180	20	5	2	9
Lara MAGONI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 401	13	18	1	22
Matthias ECKE , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 533	31	4	0	24
Petr BYSTRON , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 535	24	7	4	0
Katarina BARLEY , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	2.3 %	1 238	26	2	0	23
Hana JALLOUL MURO , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 513	20	13	1	19
Carlo CICCIOLI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 249	10	17	1	19
Jana TOOM , Renew · Estonia Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 479	24	8	1	0
Udo BULLMANN , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 569	28	6	1	25
Markus BUCHHEIT , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 446	18	0	14	0
Paulo CUNHA , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 583	13	22	0	24
Stefano CAVEDAGNA , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 358	8	20	2	21
Vasile DÎNCU , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 590	30	3	2	14
René REPASI , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 598	33	2	0	27
Reinier VAN LANSCHOT , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 646	26	7	3	33
Nela RIEHL , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 652	27	8	1	31
Nicola PROCACCINI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.2 %	1 289	9	19	0	21
Giovanni CROSETTO , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 360	9	17	3	21
Mary KHAN , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 364	9	14	6	0
César LUENA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 616	22	12	0	22
Sergio BERLATO , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 429	8	19	3	22
Chiara GEMMA , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 392	7	20	2	22
Thierry MARIANI , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 298	11	15	1	11
Pascal CANFIN , Renew · France Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 459	22	7	1	17
Liudas MAŽYLIS , EPP · Lithuania Their votes against the line	2.1 %	1 606	25	8	0	12
Annalisa CORRADO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	2.0 %	1 026	12	6	3	18
Mariateresa VIVALDINI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	2.0 %	1 320	10	16	1	20
Marjan ŠAREC , Renew · Slovenia Their votes against the line	2.0 %	1 426	29	0	0	22

About these figures

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

1 683 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
53 of 225 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 28 Sept 2026, 03:25 UTC (data stamp 5a7357168c2a, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&scope=all&to=2026-09-28
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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Data version: data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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: 28 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 27 Mar 2026 – 28 Sept 2026”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&scope=all&to=2026-09-28 (retrieved 28 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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-2026-09-28,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 27 Mar 2026 – 28 Sept 2026}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&scope=all&to=2026-09-28}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&scope=all&to=2026-09-28},
  urldate = {2026-09-28},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 5a7357168c2a (28 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}
}