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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
Hélder SOUSA SILVA , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	4.0 %	4 823	93	99	1	131
Marit MAIJ , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	4.0 %	5 805	158	58	15	200
Bruno GONÇALVES , S&D · Portugal Their votes against the line	4.0 %	4 987	142	39	17	5
Francisco José MILLÁN MON , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.9 %	5 464	147	65	3	179
Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.9 %	4 420	119	51	3	145
Maravillas ABADÍA JOVER , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.9 %	5 350	135	71	3	195
Tobiasz BOCHEŃSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.9 %	4 475	71	94	9	110
Aodhán Ó RÍORDÁIN , S&D · Ireland Their votes against the line	3.9 %	4 439	89	74	9	0
Sigrid FRIIS , Renew · Denmark Their votes against the line	3.9 %	4 620	120	59	0	0
Nora JUNCO GARCÍA changed group , ECR · Spain Their votes against the line	3.9 %	4 420	64	89	18	87
Gordan BOSANAC , Greens · Croatia Their votes against the line	3.9 %	5 699	89	83	48	0
Dolors MONTSERRAT , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.9 %	5 112	132	61	4	178
Younous OMARJEE , The Left · France Their votes against the line	3.8 %	4 013	111	24	19	30
Jacek OZDOBA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.8 %	4 654	84	82	10	100
Laurence FARRENG , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.8 %	5 327	176	22	3	107
Antonio LÓPEZ-ISTÚRIZ WHITE , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.8 %	4 925	120	62	3	172
Thijs REUTEN , S&D · Netherlands Their votes against the line	3.7 %	5 669	146	54	12	191
Luke Ming FLANAGAN , The Left · Ireland Their votes against the line	3.7 %	4 236	70	83	5	0
Raúl DE LA HOZ QUINTANO , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.7 %	5 047	135	50	3	164
Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.7 %	4 183	116	38	1	115
Sakis ARNAOUTOGLOU , S&D · Greece Their votes against the line	3.7 %	5 709	160	45	6	195
Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.7 %	4 813	87	81	8	114
Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	3.7 %	2 517	63	25	4	25
Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI , ECR · Lithuania Their votes against the line	3.6 %	3 592	56	62	12	0
Eugen TOMAC , Renew · Romania Their votes against the line	3.6 %	4 177	83	68	0	0
Evelyn REGNER , S&D · Austria Their votes against the line	3.6 %	5 659	119	76	9	160
Sophie WILMÈS , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.6 %	3 995	109	33	2	110
Caterina CHINNICI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	3.6 %	3 964	119	23	0	118
Tomasz FROELICH , ESN · Germany Their votes against the line	3.6 %	5 389	19	137	37	0
Günther SIDL , S&D · Austria Their votes against the line	3.6 %	5 392	120	64	9	143
Dominik TARCZYŃSKI , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.6 %	3 249	61	53	2	88
Christophe GRUDLER , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.5 %	5 333	144	42	3	117
Maciej WĄSIK , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.5 %	4 938	85	74	16	114
Fernando NAVARRETE ROJAS , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.5 %	5 430	120	68	3	178
Giusi PRINCI , EPP · Italy Their votes against the line	3.5 %	5 575	165	29	2	136
Borja GIMÉNEZ LARRAZ , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.5 %	5 501	138	53	2	173
Katri KULMUNI , Renew · Finland Their votes against the line	3.5 %	4 577	133	26	0	75
Jérémy DECERLE , Renew · France Their votes against the line	3.5 %	2 912	68	31	2	48
Lídia PEREIRA , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	3.5 %	5 061	84	90	1	124
Sebastião BUGALHO , EPP · Portugal Their votes against the line	3.4 %	5 074	77	97	1	132
Tsvetelina PENKOVA , S&D · Bulgaria Their votes against the line	3.4 %	4 707	103	53	6	145
Susana SOLÍS PÉREZ , EPP · Spain Their votes against the line	3.4 %	4 721	110	49	3	152
Brando BENIFEI , S&D · Italy Their votes against the line	3.4 %	4 578	120	26	11	95
Benoit CASSART , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.4 %	5 281	142	36	3	138
Urmas PAET , Renew · Estonia Their votes against the line	3.4 %	5 165	112	61	3	0
Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE , Renew · France · left on 11 Oct 2025 Their votes against the line	3.4 %	2 323	68	10	1	57
Waldemar BUDA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.4 %	4 270	69	59	17	79
Bogdan RZOŃCA , ECR · Poland Their votes against the line	3.4 %	5 096	90	77	6	127
Aura SALLA , EPP · Finland Their votes against the line	3.3 %	4 718	117	41	0	31
Olivier CHASTEL , Renew · Belgium Their votes against the line	3.3 %	5 187	129	42	2	146

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}
}