Member
Auke ZIJLSTRA
Patriots · Netherlands
- Group
- Patriots PfE
- Country
- Netherlands
- Roll-call participation
- 94.6 %ⓘ of 5 928 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.2 % · whole term, roll calls
- With majority line
- 79.4 %ⓘ of 5 591 votes where the group had a line · Patriots median 82.7 %
Record
The member’s figures against the median of their group and of the chamber. Each vote counts the member in the group they belonged to that day.
Roll-call participation ⓘ
94.6 %
5 609 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
Patriots median: 91.1 % (+3.5 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
79.4 %
4 439 of 5 591 votes where their group had a line
Patriots median: 82.7 % (−3.3 pts)
221 opposite (for ↔ against), 259 abstained against the line, 80 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Auke ZIJLSTRA | 94.6 % |
| Patriots median | 91.1 % |
| Lowest in the group | 44.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.9 % |
| Members | 89 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Auke ZIJLSTRA | 79.4 % |
| Patriots median | 82.7 % |
| Lowest in the group | 72.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 92.9 % |
| Members | 89 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of Patriots; no ranks.
- “No vote recorded” is not the same as absent: leave, illness and chairing the sitting look the same.
- A group’s line is inferred from its members’ votes — Parliament publishes no whip.
Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
Roll-call participation
One cell per sitting while in office, shaded by the share of that day’s roll calls the member voted in. The official attendance register is kept separately by Parliament.
"No vote recorded" is not the same as absent: leave, illness and chairing the sitting look the same.
Data as a table
Voting neighbours
Members who voted the same way most often in the roll calls they both took part in, within and outside the member’s group (group at the date of each vote), over all roll calls of the term.
Work
Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.
Seats
| Body | Role | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Committee on BudgetsBUDG Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Economic and Monetary AffairsECON Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Association CommitteeD-MD Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for Northern cooperation and for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary CommitteeDEEA Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 64
- EU budget & funds 40
- Foreign affairs 27
- Justice, rule of law & rights 21
- EU institutions & Parliament 20
- Digital, AI & data 14
- Energy 11
- Climate & environment 10
- Migration & asylum 8
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 8
- Trade & customs 5
- Defence & security 3
- Transport & tourism 3
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 1
- Health 1
Counts: dossiers they spoke on, led or amended, and their questions and motions.
In the chamber
Speeches and statements in plenary debates, newest first; the verbatim report is on Parliament’s site.
5 contributions recorded; 1 on behalf of their group; 7 minutes of speaking time.
| Date | Debate | Kind | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2026 | Reviewing the ETS system to support European competitiveness (topical debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Presentation of the automotive package (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 10 Mar 2025 | Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Republic of Moldova (debate) on behalf of Patriots | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 26 Nov 2024 | 2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text (debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 17 Sept 2024 | The future of European competitiveness (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
Questions and motions, 82
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 95
Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.
Connections
Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.
Political group
- Group Patriots for Europe Patriots · Far-right · national conservatism, right-wing populism
National delegation
- Delegation Netherlands National delegation
Sources & citation
Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.
- Official source
- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Data version
- data version 579b2832c723 (26 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
- 26 September 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Auke ZIJLSTRA”. Member record. memberId 103246. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/103246?docs=all&page=116&vscope=all (retrieved 26 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/103246. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/103246?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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-member-103246,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Auke ZIJLSTRA}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/103246?docs=all&page=116&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/103246?docs=all&page=116&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-26},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 103246. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/103246. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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}
}