Member
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
- 90.1 %ⓘ of 5 928 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.2 % · whole term, roll calls Changed group in this period: not compared with a single group’s median.
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.
Chamber median: 90.2 %
663 opposite (for ↔ against), 427 abstained against the line, 29 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Compared with each group they sat in
| Group | Participation | With majority line | Against clear line | Abstention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPP 17 Jul 2024 – 10 Mar 2026 | 88.5 % of 4 079 median 89.6 % (−1.2 pts) | 70.4 % of 3 608 median 93.7 % (−23.4 pts) | 27.5 % of 3 428 | 9.4 % of 3 608 |
| ECR 11 Mar 2026 – 17 Sept 2026 | 93.8 % of 1 849 median 93.1 % (+0.7 pts) | 84.1 % of 1 732 median 89.4 % (−5.2 pts) | 11.9 % of 1 482 | 12.7 % of 1 734 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes.
- “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.
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 Constitutional AffairsAFCO Committee | Member | 11 Mar 2026 | now |
| Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food SafetyENVI Committee | Substitute | 11 Mar 2026 | now |
| Committee on FisheriesPECH Committee | Substitute | 11 Mar 2026 | now |
| Delegation for relations with South AfricaD-ZA Delegation | Substitute | 26 Mar 2026 | now |
| Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary AssemblyDACP Parliamentary assembly | Member | 27 Apr 2026 | now |
| Delegation to the Pacific-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDPAC Parliamentary assembly | Member | 27 Apr 2026 | now |
| Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and CountrysideIG10-04 Intergroup / working group | Member | 4 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on European Cultural Heritage, Ways of Saint James and other European Cultural RoutesIG10-11 Intergroup / working group | Member | 29 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Sustainable LivestockIG10-15 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas (SEARICA)IG10-20 Intergroup / working group | Member | 17 Feb 2025 | now |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Climate & environment 28
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 26
- Economy & single market 22
- Foreign affairs 22
- EU budget & funds 13
- Justice, rule of law & rights 9
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 8
- EU institutions & Parliament 7
- Health 6
- Defence & security 5
- Energy 4
- Trade & customs 4
- Transport & tourism 4
- Digital, AI & data 3
- Migration & asylum 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.
56 contributions recorded; 3 on behalf of their group; 60 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 61
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 101
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 groups this term
- Group European Conservatives and Reformists ECR · Right-wing · national conservatism, EU-critical
- Group European People’s Party EPP · Centre-right · Christian democracy, conservatism
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 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
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=117&scope=all&vscope=all (retrieved 25 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 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.
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=117&scope=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/125325?page=117&scope=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
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 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}
}