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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
Niels GEUKING , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	5 599	24	27	0	0
Jüri RATAS , EPP · Estonia Their votes against the line	0.9 %	5 552	39	10	1	28
Hannah NEUMANN , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	5 334	26	19	3	27
Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ , S&D · Lithuania Their votes against the line	0.9 %	5 482	37	6	6	5
Alexander SELL , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	5 147	11	30	5	0
Virgil-Daniel POPESCU , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	0.9 %	4 848	29	13	1	13
Inese VAIDERE , EPP · Latvia Their votes against the line	0.9 %	5 301	35	7	5	0
Ralf SEEKATZ , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	4 968	34	9	1	33
Rasa JUKNEVIČIENĖ , EPP · Lithuania Their votes against the line	0.9 %	4 632	36	5	0	5
Mélanie DISDIER , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.9 %	4 314	16	22	0	28
Axel VOSS , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	4 470	34	5	0	32
Valérie DELOGE , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.9 %	4 588	16	24	0	31
Daniel FREUND , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.9 %	5 760	26	18	6	22
Catherine GRISET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.9 %	4 442	13	23	2	31
Oliver SCHENK , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.8 %	5 548	37	10	0	41
Pekka TOVERI , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	0.8 %	5 000	41	1	0	26
André FRANQUEIRA RODRIGUES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	0.8 %	4 963	24	13	2	9
Gilles PENNELLE , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.8 %	4 608	12	24	0	31
Camilla LAURETI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	0.8 %	5 703	30	13	1	41
Marie-Luce BRASIER-CLAIN , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.8 %	4 690	13	23	0	32
Séverine WERBROUCK , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.8 %	4 053	11	19	1	25
Anja ARNDT , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.8 %	4 884	24	10	3	0
Julien LEONARDELLI , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.7 %	4 404	11	21	1	29
André ROUGÉ , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.7 %	4 540	12	22	0	31
France JAMET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.7 %	4 013	16	14	0	14
Julie RECHAGNEUX , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.7 %	4 390	13	19	0	28
Erik MARQUARDT , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.7 %	5 500	14	20	6	14
Julien SANCHEZ , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.7 %	4 441	14	17	0	23
Pascale PIERA , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.7 %	4 060	13	14	1	17
Hans NEUHOFF , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.7 %	4 207	21	4	4	0
Sandra KALNIETE , EPP · Latvia Their votes against the line	0.7 %	5 175	33	1	1	0
Anna CAVAZZINI , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.7 %	5 745	18	18	2	22
Christine SCHNEIDER , EPP · Germany · left on 25 May 2026 Their votes against the line	0.7 %	3 512	19	4	0	17
Alexandra MEHNERT , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.6 %	4 941	28	3	1	27
Carla TAVARES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	0.6 %	5 373	17	10	6	3
Fabrice LEGGERI , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.6 %	4 430	12	14	1	22
Mircea-Gheorghe HAVA , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	0.6 %	4 452	20	7	0	9
Jean-Paul GARRAUD , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.6 %	4 308	8	18	0	22
Sérgio GONÇALVES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	0.6 %	5 657	24	5	4	8
Isilda GOMES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	0.6 %	5 171	21	4	5	4
Anne-Sophie FRIGOUT , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.5 %	4 201	8	15	0	20
Aleksandar NIKOLIC , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.5 %	4 035	7	15	0	16
Sara MATTHIEU , Greens · Belgium Their votes against the line	0.5 %	5 081	10	8	9	0
Marc JONGEN , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.5 %	5 009	8	13	4	0
Ufuk KÂHYA , Greens · Netherlands Their votes against the line	0.5 %	623	1	2	0	3
Pierre-Romain THIONNET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line	0.5 %	4 394	8	13	0	14
Terry REINTKE , Greens · Germany Their votes against the line	0.5 %	5 397	15	7	3	14
Siegfried MUREŞAN , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line	0.5 %	5 411	19	6	0	1
Irmhild BOSSDORF , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	0.4 %	5 353	8	7	8	0
Manfred WEBER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line	0.4 %	4 516	17	0	1	12

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?scope=all&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?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}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?scope=all&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?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}
}