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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 27 Mar 2026 – 27 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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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
Gilles PENNELLE , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.2 %	1 341	4	12	0	14
Pierre PIMPIE , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.2 %	1 342	5	11	0	14
Marie-Luce BRASIER-CLAIN , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.2 %	1 344	5	11	0	14
Norbert HERHAMMER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	614	5	2	0	6
Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY , Renew · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 625	16	2	0	18
Sven MIKSER , S&D · Estonia Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 627	4	14	0	8
Catarina MARTINS , The Left · Portugal Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 470	4	9	3	0
Julien LEONARDELLI , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 291	3	11	0	14
Jean-Paul GARRAUD , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 204	3	10	0	13
Rasa JUKNEVIČIENĖ , EPP · Lithuania Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 297	14	0	0	2
Norbert LINS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 584	10	7	0	15
André ROUGÉ , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 321	3	11	0	14
René AUST , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	1 515	9	4	3	0
Julie RECHAGNEUX , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 340	3	11	0	14
Dainius ŽALIMAS , Renew · Lithuania Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 631	15	1	1	0
Krzysztof ŚMISZEK , S&D · Poland Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 632	16	1	0	14
Inese VAIDERE , EPP · Latvia Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 443	10	5	0	0
Aleksandar NIKOLIC , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 160	3	9	0	11
Sabine VERHEYEN , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 574	11	5	0	10
Kim VAN SPARRENTAK , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 282	6	7	0	12
Adina VĂLEAN , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 192	9	2	1	2
Stefan KÖHLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 600	10	6	0	12
France JAMET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 303	5	8	0	8
Séverine WERBROUCK , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 120	3	8	0	10
Robert BIEDROŃ , S&D · Poland Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 632	15	1	0	12
Laurent CASTILLO changed group , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.0 %	1 035	2	8	0	0
Christophe BAY , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.0 %	842	4	4	0	5
Virginie JORON , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.9 %	1 270	8	4	0	4
David MCALLISTER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	1 494	10	4	0	3
Julien SANCHEZ , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.9 %	1 181	3	8	0	10
Catarina VIEIRA , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	0.9 %	1 508	6	8	0	12
Daniel FREUND , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	1 656	4	8	3	4
Valérie HAYER , Renew · France Their votes against the line	0.9 %	1 558	12	1	1	11
Michael GAHLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	1 585	11	3	0	10
Alexander SELL , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	1 525	2	10	1	0
Thomas WAITZ , Greens · Austria Their votes against the line	0.9 %	1 645	1	11	2	7
Lena SCHILLING , Greens · Austria Their votes against the line	0.8 %	1 656	4	9	1	7
André FRANQUEIRA RODRIGUES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	0.8 %	1 191	5	5	0	2
Axel VOSS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.8 %	1 201	6	4	0	9
Nicolae ȘTEFĂNUȚĂ , Greens · Romania Their votes against the line	0.8 %	981	3	3	2	0
Dan BARNA , Renew · Romania Their votes against the line	0.8 %	1 479	9	3	0	0
Oliver SCHENK , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.8 %	1 603	7	6	0	13
Hans NEUHOFF , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.8 %	1 112	8	0	1	0
Hannah NEUMANN , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.8 %	1 625	5	6	2	5
Kira Marie PETER-HANSEN , Greens · Denmark Their votes against the line	0.8 %	1 288	5	5	0	4
Ana Catarina MENDES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	0.8 %	1 594	6	3	3	2
Alexandra GEESE , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.7 %	1 350	6	3	1	5
Marta TEMIDO , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	0.7 %	1 535	6	0	5	0
Verena MERTENS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.7 %	1 473	8	2	0	8
Martin HÄUSLING , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.7 %	1 653	5	3	3	5

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 27 Sept 2026, 03:25 UTC (data stamp e994c83b5003, 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=2026-09-27
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
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Data version: data version e994c83b5003 (27 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: 27 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 27 Mar 2026 – 27 Sept 2026”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&scope=all&to=2026-09-27 (retrieved 27 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version e994c83b5003 (27 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-2026-09-27,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 27 Mar 2026 – 27 Sept 2026}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&scope=all&to=2026-09-27}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&scope=all&to=2026-09-27},
  urldate = {2026-09-27},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version e994c83b5003 (27 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}
}