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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 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 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
Vicent MARZÀ IBÁÑEZ , Greens · Spain Their votes against the line11.0 %5 2803251371190
Cristian TERHEŞ , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line11.0 %4 125237129870
Jaume ASENS LLODRÀ , Greens · Spain Their votes against the line10.9 %4 650282143840
Bert-Jan RUISSEN , ECR · Netherlands Their votes against the line10.9 %5 133274236490
Maria GRAPINI , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line10.8 %5 167295238240
Anja HAZEKAMP , The Left · Netherlands Their votes against the line10.7 %2 785166103300
Eszter LAKOS , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line10.6 %3 4851831842358
Dóra DÁVID , EPP · Hungary Their votes against the line10.6 %3 8251972043394
Elena YONCHEVA changed group , ECR · Bulgaria in No group for most of the period Their votes against the line10.4 %425337425
Per CLAUSEN , The Left · Denmark Their votes against the line10.2 %5 093311161490
Susanna CECCARDI , Patriots · Italy Their votes against the line10.1 %4 20110426458381
Leoluca ORLANDO , Greens · Italy Their votes against the line10.1 %5 001262150950
Radan KANEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line9.9 %4 107168230100
Niels FUGLSANG , S&D · Denmark Their votes against the line9.9 %4 6623559411433
Ilia LAZAROV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line9.8 %4 15426913090
Isabella TOVAGLIERI , Patriots · Italy Their votes against the line9.8 %3 9449624249362
Merja KYLLÖNEN , The Left · Finland Their votes against the line9.7 %5 11927816160341
Roberto VANNACCI changed group , ESN · Italy in Patriots for most of the period Their votes against the line9.7 %4 835118291620
Silvia SARDONE , Patriots · Italy Their votes against the line9.7 %4 0639523762377
Aldo PATRICIELLO , Patriots · Italy Their votes against the line9.6 %2 0686211126184
Raffaele STANCANELLI , Patriots · Italy Their votes against the line9.6 %3 6587123447340
Anna Maria CISINT , Patriots · Italy Their votes against the line9.6 %3 99511222347352
Jorge MARTÍN FRÍAS , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line9.5 %3 57912716350318
Jan FARSKÝ , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line9.5 %5 4872812327396
Mireia BORRÁS PABÓN , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line9.5 %4 34915419464392
Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line9.3 %4 65016220666419
Gerolf ANNEMANS , Patriots · Belgium Their votes against the line9.3 %4 04912020650315
Paolo BORCHIA , Patriots · Italy Their votes against the line9.2 %4 5989327161408
Elio DI RUPO , S&D · Belgium Their votes against the line9.2 %5 2403549038355
Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line9.2 %4 43314919563401
Danuše NERUDOVÁ , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line9.2 %5 3852562335396
Anders VISTISEN , Patriots · Denmark · left on 13 Apr 2026 Their votes against the line9.2 %2 867115128200
Hermann TERTSCH , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line9.1 %3 47712414549262
Juan Carlos GIRAUTA VIDAL , Patriots · Spain Their votes against the line9.1 %4 15514018060371
Marianne VIND , S&D · Denmark Their votes against the line9.1 %5 04734610213422
Marko VEŠLIGAJ , S&D · Croatia Their votes against the line9.1 %4 46622916513316
Şerban Dimitrie STURDZA , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line9.1 %4 50920717231247
Ondřej KOLÁŘ , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line9.0 %5 4101583245130
Diana RIBA I GINER , Greens · Spain Their votes against the line8.8 %4 942214127950
Maria WALSH , EPP · Ireland Their votes against the line8.8 %4 516311852264
Christel SCHALDEMOSE , S&D · Denmark Their votes against the line8.7 %5 56335312013476
Luděk NIEDERMAYER , EPP · Czechia Their votes against the line8.7 %5 4141503147130
Asger CHRISTENSEN , Renew · Denmark Their votes against the line8.7 %5 3073491111364
Rihards KOLS , ECR · Latvia Their votes against the line8.6 %4 77020417532230
Lynn BOYLAN , The Left · Ireland Their votes against the line8.4 %4 54819916122315
Claudiu-Richard TÂRZIU , ECR · Romania Their votes against the line8.4 %4 87021316630247
Morten LØKKEGAARD , Renew · Denmark Their votes against the line8.3 %5 2843011361364
Niels Flemming HANSEN , EPP · Denmark Their votes against the line8.3 %5 5203559830
Afroditi LATINOPOULOU , Patriots · Greece Their votes against the line8.2 %3 98090209280
Roberts ZĪLE , ECR · Latvia Their votes against the line8.1 %3 79212415431230

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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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?to=2026-09-25
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Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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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”. 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}
}