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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 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 votes620 All roll calls5 928

Order Highest rate first By name

Group Country Lead committee Topic (model-assigned) Contested votes only (largest side under 80 %)

By member, 712

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
Catarina MARTINS , The Left · Portugal Their votes against the line	1.3 %	4 432	26	26	4	0
Ruggero RAZZA , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.3 %	3 970	17	32	1	34
Angelika NIEBLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.3 %	4 957	53	7	2	33
Marjan ŠAREC , Renew · Slovenia Their votes against the line	1.3 %	5 120	55	8	1	41
René AUST , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	5 125	32	17	15	0
Sven SIMON , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	4 598	56	0	1	21
Bernd LANGE , S&D · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	5 253	49	10	6	28
Alberico GAMBINO , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.2 %	3 909	17	31	0	36
Laura BALLARÍN CEREZA , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.2 %	3 991	29	19	1	32
Lina GÁLVEZ , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.2 %	4 859	41	11	7	26
Dan BARNA , Renew · Romania Their votes against the line	1.2 %	5 057	48	11	1	6
Michael GAHLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	5 329	52	8	3	29
Mika AALTOLA , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	1.2 %	4 673	51	3	1	25
Bruno TOBBACK , S&D · Belgium Their votes against the line	1.2 %	5 540	44	18	3	40
Giovanni CROSETTO , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.2 %	4 701	15	36	4	42
Norbert LINS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	5 482	50	13	1	45
Martin GÜNTHER , The Left · Germany Their votes against the line	1.2 %	2 759	9	19	4	21
Rasmus NORDQVIST , Greens · Denmark Their votes against the line	1.2 %	5 785	26	41	0	62
Norbert HERHAMMER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	614	5	2	0	6
Alicia HOMS GINEL , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	1.1 %	4 939	34	20	2	49
Francesco VENTOLA , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.1 %	4 505	11	40	0	46
Marion WALSMANN , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	5 497	51	11	0	44
Jordan BARDELLA , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.1 %	3 822	32	10	1	4
Sabine VERHEYEN , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	4 685	43	9	0	32
Christophe BAY , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.1 %	4 045	26	18	0	22
Marco SQUARTA , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.1 %	3 961	17	26	0	30
Ana Catarina MENDES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	1.1 %	5 274	37	11	9	5
Alexandra GEESE , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	5 197	27	25	4	15
Francesco TORSELLI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.1 %	5 019	17	37	0	46
Dainius ŽALIMAS , Renew · Lithuania Their votes against the line	1.1 %	5 369	51	4	2	0
Francisco ASSIS , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	1.1 %	4 727	32	15	3	7
Martin HÄUSLING , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	1.1 %	5 505	24	31	3	21
Liudas MAŽYLIS , EPP · Lithuania Their votes against the line	1.1 %	5 225	36	18	1	21
Mario MANTOVANI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.1 %	3 709	6	33	0	28
Antonella SBERNA , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.1 %	4 474	13	34	0	36
Carlo FIDANZA , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.0 %	4 843	11	39	0	45
Philippe OLIVIER , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.0 %	3 844	21	17	1	25
Virginie JORON , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.0 %	4 574	25	19	2	22
Alessandro CIRIANI , ECR · Italy Their votes against the line	1.0 %	4 448	10	34	0	42
Marta TEMIDO , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	1.0 %	5 282	34	4	14	5
Alexandre VARAUT , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.0 %	4 406	19	24	0	29
Mathilde ANDROUËT , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.0 %	4 339	17	25	0	30
Matthieu VALET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	1.0 %	3 126	11	18	1	20
Arno BAUSEMER , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	1.0 %	4 817	25	7	14	0
Verena MERTENS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	1.0 %	4 946	26	21	0	26
Rody TOLASSY , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.9 %	4 267	17	21	2	26
Stefan KÖHLER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	5 152	41	7	0	35
Lena DÜPONT , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	4 629	35	8	0	29
Katrin LANGENSIEPEN , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	5 298	30	10	9	17
Pierre PIMPIE , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.9 %	4 580	17	23	2	31

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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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?to=2026-09-25
Data source: European Parliament Open Data
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version: 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
Retrieved: 25 September 2026

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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”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?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}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?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}
}