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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Tom BERENDSEN

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 Term202420252026Last 6 months
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Votes Final votes620All roll calls5 928
Order Highest rate firstBy name

Showing Tom BERENDSEN only. Show every member

Tom BERENDSEN’s votes against the line, 60

Every vote in the selection where the member’s position differed from their group’s clear line, newest first.

Position: the member’s vote. Clear line: the position of at least two thirds of Group (at least 10 members voting), the group they sat in on that day.
DateVotePositionClear lineGroup
12 Feb 2026Amendment 1 to recital D World Cancer DayAbstainedAgainstEPP
12 Feb 2026Recital D — part 2 Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategyForAgainstEPP
10 Feb 2026Amendment 41 to paragraph 23 European Central Bank – annual report 2025AbstainedForEPP
21 Jan 2026Amendment 38, adding text after paragraph 22 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025AbstainedAgainstEPP
20 Jan 2026Amendment 256, adding text after recital 12 Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interestAbstainedAgainstEPP
20 Jan 2026Amendment 257 to Article 3, paragraph 1, point 5 Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interestAbstainedAgainstEPP
20 Jan 2026Amendment 158 Framework for strengthening the availability and security of supply of critical medicinal products as well as the availability of, and accessibility of, medicinal products of common interestAgainstForEPP
17 Dec 2025Amendment 7, adding text after recital P European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’AbstainedForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 77 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AgainstForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 60 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AgainstForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 23 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AgainstForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 18 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AgainstForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 17 — part 3 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AgainstForEPP
13 Nov 2025Separate vote on recital Z Gender Equality Strategy 2025ForAgainstEPP
13 Nov 2025Separate vote on recital H Gender Equality Strategy 2025ForAgainstEPP
13 Nov 2025Recital D — part 3 Gender Equality Strategy 2025ForAgainstEPP
13 Nov 2025Paragraph 79 — part 2 Gender Equality Strategy 2025ForAgainstEPP
13 Nov 2025Paragraph 78 — part 2 Gender Equality Strategy 2025ForAgainstEPP
13 Nov 2025Paragraph 74 — part 2 Gender Equality Strategy 2025ForAgainstEPP
13 Nov 2025Separate vote on paragraph 73 Gender Equality Strategy 2025AbstainedAgainstEPP
13 Nov 2025Paragraph 71 — part 2 Gender Equality Strategy 2025ForAgainstEPP
13 Nov 2025Separate vote on paragraph 68 Gender Equality Strategy 2025AbstainedAgainstEPP
13 Nov 2025Paragraph 21 — part 2 Gender Equality Strategy 2025ForAgainstEPP
22 Oct 2025Final vote — text as a whole General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAbstainedForEPP
22 Oct 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 82 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAbstainedAgainstEPP
22 Oct 2025Amendment 178 to paragraph 79, after point l General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstEPP
22 Oct 2025Amendment 174, adding text after paragraph 54 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstEPP
22 Oct 2025Amendment 141, adding text after paragraph 53 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstEPP
22 Oct 2025Amendment 140, adding text after paragraph 53 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 4 Draft amending budget No 2/2025: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditureAbstainedForEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 141 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 125 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 124 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
11 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Stock-taking of the European elections 2024AbstainedForEPP
10 Sept 2025Paragraph 12 — part 3 Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interferenceForAgainstEPP
10 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policyAbstainedForEPP
10 Sept 2025Amendment 13 to paragraph 62 Future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policyAgainstForEPP
10 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Role of cohesion policy investment in resolving the current housing crisisAbstainedForEPP
9 Sept 2025Separate vote on paragraph 84 2023 and 2024 reports on UkraineAbstainedForEPP
9 Jul 2025Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 1/2025: entering the surplus of the financial year 2024AbstainedForEPP
18 Jun 2025Final vote — text as a whole Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAbstainedForEPP
18 Jun 2025Paragraph 19 — part 4 Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAgainstForEPP
17 Jun 2025Amendment 186 to Article 3, after paragraph 2 Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)AgainstForEPP
7 May 2025Final vote — text as a whole A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing worldAbstainedForEPP
3 Apr 2025Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 1 Immediate risk of further repression by Lukashenka’s regime in Belarus - threats from the Investigative CommitteeAgainstForEPP
3 Apr 2025Final vote — text as a whole Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2026 – Section I – European ParliamentAbstainedForEPP
3 Apr 2025Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 42 Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2026 – Section I – European ParliamentAbstainedAgainstEPP
3 Apr 2025Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 39 Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2026 – Section I – European ParliamentAbstainedAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Final vote — text as a whole Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIAbstainedForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 22, adding text after paragraph 25 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIAbstainedAgainstEPP
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Position: the member’s vote. Clear line: the position of at least two thirds of Group (at least 10 members voting), the group they sat in on that day.
DateVotePositionClear lineGroup
13 Mar 2025Paragraph 16 — part 2 Social and employment aspects of restructuring processes: the need to protect jobs and workers’ rightsForAgainstEPP
19 Dec 2024Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote Amending Directive 2009/38/EC as regards the establishment and functioning of European Works Councils and the effective enforcement of transnational information and consultation rightsForAgainstEPP
14 Nov 2024Paragraph 72 — part 2 UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29)ForAgainstEPP
14 Nov 2024Paragraph 66 — part 2 UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29)ForAgainstEPP
23 Oct 2024Final vote — text as a whole General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAbstainedForEPP
23 Oct 2024Amendment 72, adding text after paragraph 87 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsForAgainstEPP
23 Oct 2024Amendment 69, adding text after paragraph 75 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAbstainedForEPP
23 Oct 2024Separate vote on paragraph 15 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAbstainedForEPP
22 Oct 2024Paragraph 4 — part 2 Draft amending budget No 4/2024: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to some decentralised agenciesAbstainedForEPP
22 Oct 2024Separate vote on paragraph 6 Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023AbstainedForEPP

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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).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Tom BERENDSEN , EPP · Netherlands · left on 22 Feb 2026 1.7 %3 5693228059

About these figures

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

  • 5 928 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 174 of 794 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 25 Sept 2026, 03:36 UTC (data stamp f37e5638cded, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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data version f37e5638cded (25 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 · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Tom BERENDSEN”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197778&scope=all&to=2026-09-25 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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-2026-09-25,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Tom BERENDSEN}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197778&scope=all&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=197778&scope=all&to=2026-09-25},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 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}
}