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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
Ivaylo VALCHEV , ECR · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 387	9	44	2	0
Magdalena ADAMOWICZ , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	4.0 %	1 388	49	6	0	0
Paulius SAUDARGAS , EPP · Lithuania Their votes against the line	3.9 %	1 596	29	33	1	12
Andrzej HALICKI , EPP · Poland Their votes against the line	3.9 %	1 438	42	14	0	47
Marco FALCONE , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	3.9 %	1 422	32	23	0	31
Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	3.9 %	1 582	48	9	4	18
Dan NICA , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	3.8 %	1 068	30	4	7	12
Emmanouil KEFALOGIANNIS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	3.8 %	1 541	43	16	0	49
Oihane AGIRREGOITIA MARTÍNEZ , Renew · Spain Their votes against the line	3.8 %	1 621	35	27	0	0
Tomasz FROELICH , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	3.8 %	1 577	3	44	13	0
Marit MAIJ , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	3.8 %	1 635	43	17	2	51
Alexander BERNHUBER , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	3.8 %	1 486	28	26	2	27
Andi CRISTEA , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 421	31	22	0	33
Luke Ming FLANAGAN , The Left · Ireland Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 481	28	27	0	0
Ivars IJABS , Renew · Latvia Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 051	31	8	0	0
Benoit CASSART , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 621	51	8	1	38
Waldemar BUDA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.7 %	1 041	11	24	3	27
Eero HEINÄLUOMA , S&D · Finland Their votes against the line	3.6 %	1 523	25	30	0	31
Mounir SATOURI , Greens · France Their votes against the line	3.6 %	1 057	24	6	8	29
Evelyn REGNER , S&D · Austria Their votes against the line	3.6 %	1 622	47	8	3	39
Giorgio GORI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	3.5 %	1 557	31	20	4	18
David CASA , EPP · Malta Their votes against the line	3.5 %	1 529	34	19	1	31
Caterina CHINNICI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	3.5 %	684	24	0	0	21
Laurence FARRENG , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 513	45	6	1	28
Adam BIELAN , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 225	17	21	4	27
Csaba MOLNÁR , S&D · Hungary Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 472	37	3	10	33
Dario NARDELLA , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 181	22	16	2	26
Peter AGIUS , EPP · Malta Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 065	18	18	0	31
Reinhold LOPATKA , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	3.4 %	1 545	26	26	0	35
Gilles BOYER , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 629	38	14	2	38
Veronika CIFROVÁ OSTRIHOŇOVÁ , Renew · Slovakia Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 154	35	3	0	34
Angelika WINZIG , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 580	27	25	0	36
Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI , ECR · Lithuania Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 185	18	18	3	0
Sakis ARNAOUTOGLOU , S&D · Greece Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 615	43	7	3	50
Georgia TRAMACERE , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 561	36	10	5	38
Thijs REUTEN , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	3.3 %	1 594	35	15	2	49
Sandro RUOTOLO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	3.3 %	829	20	5	2	23
Giusi PRINCI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	3.2 %	1 592	46	5	0	30
Giuseppe LUPO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	3.2 %	1 316	29	11	2	30
Christophe GRUDLER , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.2 %	1 603	38	12	1	28
Lídia PEREIRA , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	3.2 %	1 512	23	25	0	27
Olivier CHASTEL , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.2 %	1 296	33	8	0	36
Nora JUNCO GARCÍA changed group , ECR · Spain Their votes against the line	3.2 %	1 423	19	21	5	14
Klára DOBREV , S&D · Hungary Their votes against the line	3.1 %	1 242	32	1	6	33
Lara WOLTERS , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	3.1 %	1 632	35	14	2	48
Raffaele TOPO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	3.1 %	1 580	34	11	4	29
Nathalie LOISEAU , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.1 %	1 485	30	15	1	38
Bruno GONÇALVES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	3.1 %	1 431	28	10	6	2
Eva MAYDELL , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	3.1 %	326	6	4	0	6
Sophie WILMÈS , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.1 %	1 207	30	6	1	31

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&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&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&to=2026-09-28}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&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}
}