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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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Period Term 2024 2025 2026 Last 6 months

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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
Georg MAYER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	14.6 %	1 323	63	112	18	193
Petras GRAŽULIS , ESN · Lithuania Their votes against the line	14.5 %	1 313	91	88	12	0
Annamária VICSEK , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	14.5 %	1 219	63	111	3	169
Nicolas BAY , ECR · France Their votes against the line	14.3 %	1 360	96	56	43	182
Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line	14.3 %	1 423	62	122	20	152
András LÁSZLÓ , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	14.1 %	1 249	58	115	3	171
Tomislav SOKOL , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	14.0 %	1 331	163	21	3	36
Gheorghe PIPEREA , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line	14.0 %	1 358	90	88	12	80
João OLIVEIRA , The Left · Portugal Their votes against the line	13.9 %	1 315	102	64	17	0
Laurence TROCHU , ECR · France Their votes against the line	13.9 %	1 410	99	56	41	190
Csaba DÖMÖTÖR , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	13.6 %	1 234	55	110	3	163
Guillaume PELTIER , ECR · France Their votes against the line	13.6 %	1 321	91	47	41	170
Jonas SJÖSTEDT , The Left · Sweden Their votes against the line	13.3 %	1 500	77	97	25	193
Marion MARÉCHAL , ECR · France Their votes against the line	13.2 %	1 310	81	55	37	162
Zsuzsanna BORVENDÉG , ESN · Hungary Their votes against the line	12.9 %	1 494	41	131	21	0
Hanna GEDIN , The Left · Sweden Their votes against the line	12.5 %	1 544	72	96	25	193
Kinga GÁL , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	12.5 %	904	24	87	2	113
Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	12.4 %	1 406	156	15	4	16
Bert-Jan RUISSEN , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line	12.4 %	1 432	77	87	14	0
Viktória FERENC , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	12.3 %	1 030	38	86	3	127
Sander SMIT changed group , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line	12.2 %	1 336	50	95	18	152
Ilia LAZAROV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	12.1 %	1 458	121	50	5	0
Cristian TERHEŞ , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line	12.1 %	1 385	90	43	34	0
Stanisław TYSZKA , ESN · Poland Their votes against the line	12.0 %	1 416	58	68	44	157
Geadis GEADI , ECR · Cyprus Their votes against the line	11.9 %	1 265	78	51	22	0
Estelle CEULEMANS , S&D · Belgium Their votes against the line	11.9 %	1 383	117	33	15	78
Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group , ECR · Czechia Their votes against the line	11.8 %	492	36	13	9	0
Alex AGIUS SALIBA , S&D · Malta Their votes against the line	11.8 %	748	63	24	1	66
Niels Flemming HANSEN , EPP · Denmark Their votes against the line	11.5 %	1 604	141	41	2	0
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
Auke ZIJLSTRA , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	11.1 %	1 214	55	51	29	130
Sebastian KRUIS , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	11.1 %	1 333	64	52	32	136
Ton DIEPEVEEN , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	11.0 %	1 252	56	50	32	135
Mieke ANDRIESE , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	11.0 %	1 211	53	51	29	131
Niels FUGLSANG , S&D · Denmark Their votes against the line	10.9 %	1 615	141	33	2	166
Radan KANEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	10.8 %	1 046	56	53	4	0
Rachel BLOM , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	10.7 %	1 340	56	55	32	140
Marieke EHLERS , Patriots · Netherlands Their votes against the line	10.6 %	1 329	59	52	30	139
György HÖLVÉNYI , Patriots · Hungary Their votes against the line	10.5 %	912	25	69	2	0
Christel SCHALDEMOSE , S&D · Denmark Their votes against the line	10.5 %	1 561	129	33	2	164
Alexandr VONDRA , ECR · Czechia Their votes against the line	10.3 %	1 091	36	54	22	104
Afroditi LATINOPOULOU , Patriots · Greece Their votes against the line	10.2 %	1 282	40	73	18	0
Luděk NIEDERMAYER , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line	9.9 %	1 566	63	88	4	32
Asger CHRISTENSEN , Renew · Denmark Their votes against the line	9.9 %	1 571	104	51	0	124
Gabriella GERZSENYI , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line	9.8 %	488	20	27	1	47
Rihards KOLS , ECR · Latvia Their votes against the line	9.7 %	1 253	60	52	10	93
Maria GRAPINI , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	9.7 %	1 534	71	74	4	0
Şerban Dimitrie STURDZA , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line	9.7 %	1 356	70	54	7	71
Isabella TOVAGLIERI , Patriots · Italy Their votes against the line	9.6 %	991	31	48	16	86
Claudiu-Richard TÂRZIU , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line	9.6 %	1 413	81	46	8	71

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
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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}
}