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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · 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 100 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
Emmanouil FRAGKOS , ECR · Greece Their votes against the line	50.4 %	141	21	35	15	54
Galato ALEXANDRAKI , ECR · Greece Their votes against the line	47.8 %	113	17	26	11	54
Beatrice TIMGREN , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line	42.0 %	143	37	9	14	59
Dick ERIXON , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line	41.0 %	139	35	8	14	57
Charlie WEIMERS , ECR · Sweden Their votes against the line	40.4 %	141	35	9	13	57
Jaroslav BŽOCH , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	39.8 %	123	25	18	6	47
Ondřej KNOTEK , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	39.6 %	111	23	15	6	42
Kristoffer STORM , ECR · Denmark Their votes against the line	38.6 %	140	29	10	15	0
Jaroslava POKORNÁ JERMANOVÁ , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	37.3 %	126	23	17	7	45
Jaroslav KNOT , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	37.3 %	102	18	14	6	37
Tomáš KUBÍN , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	37.2 %	121	22	16	7	44
Sebastian TYNKKYNEN , ECR · Finland Their votes against the line	35.7 %	112	25	6	9	0
Sarah KNAFO , ESN · France Their votes against the line	33.1 %	154	18	20	13	0
João OLIVEIRA , The Left · Portugal Their votes against the line	32.8 %	134	18	15	11	0
Antonín STANĚK , Patriots · Czechia Their votes against the line	32.6 %	129	15	22	5	0
Assita KANKO , ECR · Belgium Their votes against the line	25.8 %	120	14	11	6	29
Guillaume PELTIER , ECR · France Their votes against the line	25.8 %	124	15	9	8	29
Marcin SYPNIEWSKI , ESN · Poland Their votes against the line	25.6 %	156	13	11	16	32
Merja KYLLÖNEN , The Left · Finland Their votes against the line	25.5 %	137	11	6	18	24
Laurence TROCHU , ECR · France Their votes against the line	23.7 %	139	14	12	7	33
Marion MARÉCHAL , ECR · France Their votes against the line	23.7 %	131	11	13	7	30
Petras GRAŽULIS , ESN · Lithuania Their votes against the line	23.7 %	131	11	16	4	0
Stanisław TYSZKA , ESN · Poland Their votes against the line	23.1 %	147	9	11	14	32
Christophe GOMART , EPP · France Their votes against the line	22.5 %	138	15	16	0	12
Kris VAN DIJCK , ECR · Belgium Their votes against the line	22.4 %	143	13	13	6	29
Harald VILIMSKY , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	22.1 %	131	14	11	4	27
Nicolas BAY , ECR · France Their votes against the line	22.0 %	132	11	10	8	29
Jussi SARAMO , The Left · Finland Their votes against the line	21.7 %	138	5	10	15	28
Veronika VRECIONOVÁ , ECR · Czechia Their votes against the line	21.6 %	116	10	6	9	22
Petra STEGER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	21.5 %	130	15	9	4	26
Jorge MARTÍN FRÍAS , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	21.3 %	122	14	10	2	25
Li ANDERSSON , The Left · Finland Their votes against the line	21.3 %	122	5	7	14	26
Gerald HAUSER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	20.3 %	123	12	9	4	25
Anja HAZEKAMP , The Left · Netherlands Their votes against the line	20.3 %	138	6	9	13	0
Mireia BORRÁS PABÓN , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	20.2 %	124	13	10	2	24
Sander SMIT changed group , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line	20.1 %	134	10	15	2	24
Roman HAIDER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	20.0 %	130	13	9	4	26
Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	19.8 %	131	14	10	2	26
Sebastian EVERDING , The Left · Germany · left on 12 Sept 2026 Their votes against the line	19.8 %	106	3	4	14	0
Elisabeth DIERINGER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	19.5 %	128	13	9	3	25
Georg MAYER , Patriots · Austria Their votes against the line	19.4 %	129	13	8	4	25
Ewa ZAJĄCZKOWSKA-HERNIK changed group , Patriots · Poland Their votes against the line	19.2 %	104	5	12	3	19
Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line	19.2 %	125	14	8	2	23
Marc BOTENGA , The Left · Belgium Their votes against the line	19.2 %	120	3	16	4	0
Ondřej KRUTÍLEK , ECR · Czechia Their votes against the line	19.1 %	131	11	5	9	22
Isabella TOVAGLIERI , Patriots · Italy Their votes against the line	19.0 %	100	7	9	3	19
Jonas SJÖSTEDT , The Left · Sweden Their votes against the line	18.5 %	135	9	2	14	24
Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line	18.4 %	141	10	14	2	24
Afroditi LATINOPOULOU , Patriots · Greece Their votes against the line	18.4 %	125	6	14	3	0
Majbritt BIRKHOLM , Patriots · Denmark Their votes against the line	18.3 %	126	7	13	3	0

About these figures

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

172 votes considered (final 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 100 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=2026-03-27&scope=final&to=2026-09-27
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: 27 September 2026

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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 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=final&to=2026-09-27 (retrieved 27 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-2026-09-27,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · 27 Mar 2026 – 27 Sept 2026}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&scope=final&to=2026-09-27}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2026-03-27&scope=final&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 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}
}