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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 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 Term202420252026Last 6 months
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Votes Final votes620All roll calls5 928
Order Highest rate firstBy name

By member, 712

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).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Pierre-Romain THIONNET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line0.7 %4570302
Valérie DELOGE , Patriots · France Their votes against the line0.6 %4690302
Marie-Luce BRASIER-CLAIN , Patriots · France Their votes against the line0.6 %4870302
Sandra KALNIETE , EPP · Latvia Their votes against the line0.6 %5213000
Liudas MAŽYLIS , EPP · Lithuania Their votes against the line0.6 %5391202
Christine ANDERSON , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line0.5 %5532010
Bruno TOBBACK , S&D · Belgium Their votes against the line0.5 %5762103
Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ , S&D · Lithuania Their votes against the line0.5 %5843000
Georgia TRAMACERE , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line0.5 %2031000
Philippe OLIVIER , Patriots · France Their votes against the line0.5 %4130202
Aleksandar NIKOLIC , Patriots · France Their votes against the line0.5 %4210202
Catherine GRISET , Patriots · France Their votes against the line0.4 %4480202
Jean-Paul GARRAUD , Patriots · France Their votes against the line0.4 %4490202
Julien LEONARDELLI , Patriots · France Their votes against the line0.4 %4500202
Fabrice LEGGERI , Patriots · France Their votes against the line0.4 %4580202
Antonio DECARO , S&D · Italy · left on 1 Feb 2026 Their votes against the line0.4 %2341000
Manfred WEBER , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line0.4 %4732002
Gilles PENNELLE , Patriots · France Their votes against the line0.4 %4740202
André ROUGÉ , Patriots · France Their votes against the line0.4 %4770202
Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE , Renew · France · left on 11 Oct 2025 Their votes against the line0.4 %2400100
Elisabetta GUALMINI changed group , Renew · Italy in S&D for most of the period Their votes against the line0.4 %4921100
Virgil-Daniel POPESCU , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line0.4 %5141100
Dainius ŽALIMAS , Renew · Lithuania Their votes against the line0.4 %5182000
Isilda GOMES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line0.4 %5332001
Sandra GÓMEZ LÓPEZ , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line0.4 %5371101
Daniel BUDA , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line0.4 %5452000
Marta TEMIDO , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line0.4 %5511101
Siegfried MUREŞAN , EPP · Romania Their votes against the line0.4 %5520200
Carla TAVARES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line0.4 %5531101
Irmhild BOSSDORF , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line0.4 %5550110
Giuseppe LUPO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line0.4 %5711100
Niels GEUKING , EPP · Germany Their votes against the line0.3 %5761100
Pierfrancesco MARAN , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line0.3 %5780200
Ville NIINISTÖ , Greens · Finland Their votes against the line0.2 %4290100
Maria OHISALO , Greens · Finland Their votes against the line0.2 %4860100
Brando BENIFEI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line0.2 %4930101
Annalisa CORRADO , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line0.2 %5110101
Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line0.2 %5691000
Stefano BONACCINI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line0.2 %5691000
Alessandra MORETTI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line0.2 %5920100
Irene TINAGLI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line0.2 %5991000
Camilla LAURETI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line0.2 %6020101
Bas EICKHOUT , Greens · Netherlands · left on 20 Jun 2026 0.0 %4750000
Matthieu VALET , Patriots · France 0.0 %3400000
Mircea-Gheorghe HAVA , EPP · Romania 0.0 %4680000
Rasa JUKNEVIČIENĖ , EPP · Lithuania 0.0 %4820000
Terry REINTKE , Greens · Germany 0.0 %5590000
Valérie HAYER , Renew · France 0.0 %5420000
Ondřej KOVAŘÍK , Patriots · Czechia · left on 30 Jul 2025 Their votes against the line30.0 %901015226
Péter MAGYAR , EPP · Hungary · left on 8 May 2026 Their votes against the line24.7 %81515018

About these figures

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

  • 620 votes considered (final 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 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 27 Sept 2026, 03:25 UTC (data stamp e994c83b5003, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?scope=final&to=2026-09-27
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data version e994c83b5003 (27 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 — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 27 Sept 2026”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?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 e994c83b5003 (27 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.
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-analysis-2026-09-27,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 27 Sept 2026}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?scope=final&to=2026-09-27}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?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 e994c83b5003 (27 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}
}