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Sander SMIT

ECR · Netherlands

Group
ECR Changed group: EPP 16 Jul 2024 – 10 Mar 2026 → ECR since 11 Mar 2026
Country
Netherlands
Roll-call participation
90.3 %ⓘ of 620 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.6 % · whole term, final votes Changed group in this period: not compared with a single group’s median.
With majority line
81.9 %ⓘ of 559 votes where the group had a line · compared per group under Record
More facts (5)
National party
BBB BoerBurgerBeweging
In office
Since 16 Jul 2024
Against clear line
80 of 498 votesⓘ
Committees
AFCO, ENVI (substitute), PECH (substitute)
Member id
125325
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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 ⓘ

90.3 %

560 of 620 final votes while in office

Chamber median: 90.6 %

With majority line ⓘ

81.9 %

458 of 559 votes where their group had a line

Against clear line ⓘ

16.1 %

80 of 498 votes where their group had a clear line

20 opposite (for ↔ against), 57 abstained against the line, 3 voted for or against when the line was to abstain

Abstention ⓘ

15.9 %

89 of 560 votes cast

Compared with each group they sat in

The member’s record in each group they sat in during the period, over the roll calls held while they sat in it (dates: the first and last of them). Each figure with its denominator: participation of the roll calls held, majority line of the votes where the group had one, against clear line of the votes where it had a clear line (at least two thirds, with at least 10 members voting), abstention of the votes cast. Median: that group’s median over the same roll calls, with the member’s difference in percentage points. A figure over fewer than 50 votes is shown as a count.
GroupParticipationWith majority lineAgainst clear lineAbstention
EPP 17 Jul 2024 – 10 Mar 202688.2 % of 417 median 90.9 % (−2.6 pts)84.0 % of 368 median 95.4 % (−11.5 pts)15.0 % of 33911.4 % of 368
ECR 11 Mar 2026 – 17 Sept 202694.6 % of 203 median 93.6 % (+1.0 pts)78.0 % of 191 median 86.9 % (−8.9 pts)18.2 % of 15924.5 % of 192
  • Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name.
  • “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.
  • This member changed group in this period: each vote counts them in the group of that day, and they are compared with each group over the roll calls held while they sat in it — not with one group’s median.

Votes, 5 928

Export

Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.

Result: for–against–abstained. Majority line: how most of the member’s group voted that day (“Tie” when no position won). ≠ group marks a vote otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds, with at least 10 members voting) of their group.
DateDecision and voteResultPositionMajority line
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 81, adding text after paragraph 17 129 for, 499 against, 18 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 27 to paragraph 17 151 for, 442 against, 83 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 26, adding text after paragraph 16 194 for, 387 against, 90 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 61, adding text after paragraph 15 131 for, 513 against, 28 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 40, adding text after paragraph 15 225 for, 439 against, 5 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 17, adding text after paragraph 14 318 for, 246 against, 114 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 16, adding text after paragraph 14 155 for, 437 against, 86 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 13 to paragraph 14 139 for, 443 against, 96 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 39, adding text after paragraph 13 206 for, 457 against, 12 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 58, adding text after paragraph 12 195 for, 466 against, 9 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 57, adding text after paragraph 12 206 for, 453 against, 12 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 25, adding text after paragraph 12 231 for, 411 against, 26 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 30 to paragraph 12 328 for, 297 against, 55 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 24 to paragraph 12 221 for, 420 against, 25 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 56, adding text after paragraph 11 321 for, 318 against, 11 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 55, adding text after paragraph 11 213 for, 450 against, 8 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 54, adding text after paragraph 11 178 for, 473 against, 19 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 53, adding text after paragraph 11 210 for, 453 against, 12 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 52, adding text after paragraph 11 212 for, 448 against, 11 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 38, adding text after paragraph 11 172 for, 465 against, 37 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 11 172 for, 428 against, 76 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 29 to paragraph 11 342 for, 310 against, 22 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 37 to paragraph 11 151 for, 468 against, 47 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 14, adding text after paragraph 10 158 for, 475 against, 37 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 7 77 for, 586 against, 8 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 6 93 for, 517 against, 67 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 6 66 for, 568 against, 40 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 6 100 for, 505 against, 71 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 51, adding text after paragraph 4 193 for, 464 against, 7 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 36, adding text after paragraph 4 192 for, 456 against, 19 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 4 116 for, 520 against, 28 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 50, adding text after paragraph 3 210 for, 434 against, 5 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 35, adding text after paragraph 3 218 for, 425 against, 2 abstainedPosition: For ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 49, adding text after paragraph 2 188 for, 443 against, 20 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 34, adding text after paragraph 1 181 for, 442 against, 21 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 6, adding text before paragraph 1 68 for, 475 against, 110 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 4, adding text before paragraph 1 63 for, 507 against, 70 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
2 Apr 2025Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III Amendment 3, adding text before paragraph 1 84 for, 467 against, 69 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
1 Apr 2025Customs duties on imports of certain products originating in the USA Final vote on the provisional agreementPassed 593 for, 7 against, 35 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
1 Apr 2025Macro-financial assistance to Egypt Final votePassed 452 for, 182 against, 40 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
1 Apr 2025Macro-financial assistance to Egypt Amendment 33, adding text after recital 28 232 for, 389 against, 49 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
1 Apr 2025Macro-financial assistance to Egypt Amendment 42 to recital 28 327 for, 311 against, 37 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
1 Apr 2025Macro-financial assistance to Egypt Amendment 41 to recital 22 302 for, 335 against, 30 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
1 Apr 2025Macro-financial assistance to Egypt Amendment 29, adding text after recital 6 254 for, 377 against, 28 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
1 Apr 2025Macro-financial assistance to Egypt Amendment 38 to recital 6 220 for, 409 against, 45 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
1 Apr 2025Macro-financial assistance to Egypt Amendment 40 to recital 5 312 for, 262 against, 100 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
1 Apr 2025Macro-financial assistance to Egypt Amendment 39 to recital 3 327 for, 247 against, 102 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
1 Apr 2025Macro-financial assistance to Egypt Amendment 49 to Article 4, paragraph 3, subparagraph 1, point c 321 for, 309 against, 42 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
1 Apr 2025Macro-financial assistance to Egypt Amendment 37 to Article 4, paragraph 3, subparagraph 1, point b 217 for, 409 against, 40 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
1 Apr 2025Macro-financial assistance to Egypt Amendment 36 to Article 4, paragraph 3, subparagraph 1, point a 228 for, 413 against, 30 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against

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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 on 6 of 80 sittings with roll calls.

"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.

At least 200 shared roll calls over at least six months in office together. Within = both sat in the same group on the date of the vote; a member who changed group can appear on both lists. Baseline = the median agreement of all pairs of members of the groups the two sat in on the date of each shared vote (within: the group they shared; outside: the two groups), weighted by the votes they shared in each combination.

Within the same group (on the day of each vote)

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in the same group (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of that group.
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group ECRNetherlands98 % of 5 262 shared87 %
Stephen Nikola BARTULICA ECRCroatia83 % of 1 539 shared81 %
Diego SOLIER changed group ECRSpain83 % of 1 709 shared81 %
Nora JUNCO GARCÍA changed group ECRSpain82 % of 1 718 shared81 %
Ivaylo VALCHEV ECRBulgaria82 % of 1 677 shared81 %
Adrian-George AXINIA ECRRomania81 % of 1 712 shared81 %
Marco SQUARTA ECRItaly81 % of 1 203 shared81 %
Jaak MADISON ECREstonia80 % of 1 472 shared81 %
Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI ECRLithuania80 % of 1 376 shared81 %
Paolo INSELVINI ECRItaly80 % of 1 621 shared81 %

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Outside the group

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in different groups (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of the groups the two sat in on those votes (groups at the date, weighted by the votes shared in each combination).
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Alexandr VONDRA ECRCzechia70 % of 3 426 shared50 %
Bert-Jan RUISSEN ECRNetherlands69 % of 3 596 shared50 %
Jaak MADISON ECREstonia69 % of 2 921 shared50 %
Aurelijus VERYGA ECRLithuania69 % of 3 555 shared50 %
Ondřej KRUTÍLEK ECRCzechia68 % of 3 600 shared50 %
Antonín STANĚK PatriotsCzechia68 % of 2 983 shared55 %
Giuseppe MILAZZO ECRItaly68 % of 1 802 shared50 %
Reinis POZŅAKS ECRLatvia68 % of 3 395 shared50 %
Branko GRIMS changed group No groupSlovenia68 % of 1 476 shared49 %
Ruggero RAZZA ECRItaly68 % of 3 005 shared50 %

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Work

Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.

Seats

Body: the committee, delegation or intergroup, with its kind. Role: the member’s role in it. From, To: the dates of the seat (“now” while it lasts).
BodyRoleFromTo
Committee on Constitutional AffairsAFCO CommitteeMember11 Mar 2026now
Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food SafetyENVI CommitteeSubstitute11 Mar 2026now
Committee on FisheriesPECH CommitteeSubstitute11 Mar 2026now
Delegation for relations with South AfricaD-ZA DelegationSubstitute26 Mar 2026now
Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary AssemblyDACP Parliamentary assemblyMember27 Apr 2026now
Delegation to the Pacific-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDPAC Parliamentary assemblyMember27 Apr 2026now
Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and CountrysideIG10-04 Intergroup / working groupMember4 Feb 2025now
Intergroup on European Cultural Heritage, Ways of Saint James and other European Cultural RoutesIG10-11 Intergroup / working groupMember29 Jan 2025now
Intergroup on Sustainable LivestockIG10-15 Intergroup / working groupMember31 Jan 2025now
Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas (SEARICA)IG10-20 Intergroup / working groupMember17 Feb 2025now

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Dossiers

Show all 6 dossier roles

Topics they work on (model-assigned)

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.

56 contributions recorded; 3 on behalf of their group; 61 minutes of speaking time.

Show all 40 recent contributions

Questions and motions, 61

Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.

Date: tabled. Title: the question or motion, with its id. Kind: written question or motion for a resolution, with the number of co-authors. Answer: the date of the answer to a question.
DateTitleKindAnswer
24 Aug 2026Reports of verbal and physical harassment within the European Commission E-10-2026-003307Written questionwith 1 co-authorNot yet answered
19 Aug 2026Framework and support for small-scale EU coastal fishers in relation to emerging bluefin tuna stocks in the North Sea E-10-2026-003298Written questionwith 2 co-authorsNot yet answered
23 Jul 2026Methane Regulation and threat to the security of supply of oil and gas P-10-2026-003107Priority written question4 Sept 2026
14 Jul 2026Transparency and subsidiarity safeguards for LGBTIQ-related funding under AgoraEU and CERV+ E-10-2026-002903Written questionwith 11 co-authors25 Aug 2026
1 Jul 2026MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Commission delegated regulation (EU) of 27 March 2026 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688 as regards infection with bluetongue virus (serotypes 1-24) and infection with epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus and introducing a derogation for movements of registered equine animals B-10-2026-0342Motion for a resolutionwith 40 co-authors—
18 Jun 2026Human trafficking and human rights violations through recruitment of non-Russian nationals, in particular from Africa, for Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine E-10-2026-002532Written questionwith 27 co-authors6 Aug 2026
18 Jun 2026Inclusion of surrogacy in the new EU strategy to combat trafficking in human beings E-10-2026-002535Written questionwith 19 co-authors4 Aug 2026
17 Jun 2026Turkish interference with aircraft carrying EU Defence Ministers travelling to the Republic of Cyprus E-10-2026-002522Written questionwith 5 co-authors3 Aug 2026
20 May 2026Council debate on targeted revision of EU species-protection rules E-10-2026-002098Written questionwith 5 co-authors16 Jul 2026
11 May 2026Shipment of salmonella-contaminated chicken from Brazil E-10-2026-001939Written questionwith 2 co-authors22 Jul 2026

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Amendments tabled in committee, 101

Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.

Date: of the amendment document. Text amended: the dossier and the document’s id. Committee: where the amendments were tabled. Amendments: how many in the document are the member’s.
DateText amendedCommitteeAmendments
17 Jul 2026Multiannual plan for the fisheries exploiting demersal stocks in the western Mediterranean Sea PECH-AM-791020 PECH18
16 Jul 2026General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 - all sections PECH-AM-791014 PECH8
15 Jul 2026Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 and Regulation (EU) 2024/1244 as regards simplification of some requirements and reduction of administrative burden ENVI-AM-790846 ENVI4
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790958 AGRI2
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790915 AGRI3
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790957 AGRI6
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790956 AGRI2
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790899 AGRI1
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790918 AGRI7
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790919 AGRI1

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Connections

Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.

Political groups this term

National delegation

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version
data version 772c7b2d0380 (30 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
30 September 2026

Cite as

EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Sander SMIT”. Member record. memberId 125325. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/125325?page=100&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 30 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/125325. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/125325?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 772c7b2d0380 (30 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-125325,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Sander SMIT}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/125325?page=100&scope=final&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/125325?page=100&scope=final&vscope=all},
  urldate = {2026-09-30},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Member record. memberId 125325. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/125325. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 772c7b2d0380 (30 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}
}