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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
Željana ZOVKO , EPP · Croatia Their votes against the line	4.9 %	4 487	194	21	3	105
Stanislav STOYANOV , ESN · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.8 %	5 177	79	118	52	114
Wouter BEKE , EPP · Belgium Their votes against the line	4.8 %	5 448	189	66	7	185
Eva MAYDELL , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.7 %	2 485	93	24	1	82
Lukas SIEPER changed group , Renew · Germany in No group for most of the period Their votes against the line	4.7 %	1 647	78	0	0	0
Vangelis MEIMARAKIS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.7 %	4 359	142	60	4	189
Oihane AGIRREGOITIA MARTÍNEZ , Renew · Spain Their votes against the line	4.6 %	5 461	152	99	1	0
Juan Ignacio ZOIDO ÁLVAREZ , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.6 %	5 190	161	73	5	193
Reinhold LOPATKA , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	4.6 %	5 217	104	134	1	185
João COTRIM DE FIGUEIREDO , Renew · Portugal Their votes against the line	4.6 %	4 739	107	109	1	160
Sebastian EVERDING , The Left · Germany · left on 12 Sept 2026 Their votes against the line	4.6 %	4 851	54	124	44	0
Lucia ANNUNZIATA , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	4.5 %	4 985	94	124	8	73
Klára DOBREV , S&D · Hungary Their votes against the line	4.5 %	4 144	160	7	20	147
Andrey NOVAKOV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.5 %	5 112	140	87	2	179
Alma EZCURRA ALMANSA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.5 %	1 988	64	24	1	81
Ana VASCONCELOS , Renew · Portugal Their votes against the line	4.5 %	5 351	135	102	2	160
Eleonora MELETI , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.5 %	4 422	140	53	4	183
Letizia MORATTI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	4.4 %	4 027	152	27	0	114
Victor NEGRESCU , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	4.4 %	4 795	98	114	1	153
Lukas MANDL , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	4.4 %	5 051	129	93	2	147
Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.4 %	5 437	161	77	3	182
Virginijus SINKEVIČIUS , Greens · Lithuania Their votes against the line	4.4 %	5 329	106	99	31	0
Tilly METZ , Greens · Luxembourg Their votes against the line	4.4 %	5 592	125	51	71	0
Dimitris TSIODRAS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.4 %	5 083	157	61	5	212
Georgios AFTIAS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.4 %	4 617	138	59	4	191
Yannis MANIATIS , S&D · Greece Their votes against the line	4.3 %	4 623	151	44	6	184
Liesbet SOMMEN , EPP · Belgium Their votes against the line	4.3 %	5 410	171	55	9	185
Nicolás PASCUAL DE LA PARTE , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.3 %	4 997	148	64	4	157
Ivaylo VALCHEV , ECR · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.3 %	5 011	67	130	19	0
Patryk JAKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	4.3 %	4 726	101	85	17	104
Ana Miguel PEDRO , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	4.3 %	4 875	134	71	4	0
Csaba MOLNÁR , S&D · Hungary Their votes against the line	4.3 %	4 458	158	15	18	147
Andrey KOVATCHEV , EPP · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	4.3 %	5 398	141	88	2	164
Marco FALCONE , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	4.3 %	5 095	147	71	0	133
Angelika WINZIG , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	4.3 %	5 340	119	108	0	174
Emmanouil KEFALOGIANNIS , EPP · Greece Their votes against the line	4.2 %	5 012	168	40	4	162
Elena NEVADO DEL CAMPO , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.2 %	5 019	136	75	1	161
Dirk GOTINK , EPP · Netherlands Their votes against the line	4.2 %	5 506	162	64	6	0
Javier ZARZALEJOS , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.2 %	5 365	156	65	4	183
Eero HEINÄLUOMA , S&D · Finland Their votes against the line	4.2 %	5 255	93	124	2	92
Andi CRISTEA , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	4.2 %	4 922	108	95	2	148
Gabriel MATO , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.2 %	5 032	140	65	4	184
Carmen CRESPO DÍAZ , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.2 %	4 865	136	63	3	182
Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR , S&D · Spain Their votes against the line	4.1 %	5 605	166	49	16	84
Dan NICA , S&D · Romania Their votes against the line	4.1 %	3 527	101	30	13	58
Adrián VÁZQUEZ LÁZARA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.1 %	4 658	131	58	1	141
Carola RACKETE , The Left · Germany · left on 15 Sept 2025 Their votes against the line	4.1 %	1 866	20	44	12	0
Pablo ARIAS ECHEVERRÍA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	4.1 %	5 215	149	60	3	167
Lara WOLTERS , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	4.0 %	5 310	148	54	12	179
Sophia KIRCHER , EPP · Austria Their votes against the line	4.0 %	4 922	85	112	0	171

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}
}