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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
84.6 %ⓘ of 2 891 roll calls in office · chamber median 91.2 % · 2025, roll calls
With majority line
70.7 %ⓘ of 2 446 votes where the group had a line · EPP median 93.5 %
More facts (5)
National party
BBB BoerBurgerBeweging
In office
Since 16 Jul 2024
Against clear line
637 of 2 333 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 ⓘ

84.6 %

2 446 of 2 891 roll calls while in office

EPP median: 91.0 % (−6.4 pts)

Chamber median: 91.2 %

With majority line ⓘ

70.7 %

1 729 of 2 446 votes where their group had a line

EPP median: 93.5 % (−22.9 pts)

Against clear line ⓘ

27.3 %

637 of 2 333 votes where their group had a clear line

428 opposite (for ↔ against), 205 abstained against the line, 4 voted for or against when the line was to abstain

Abstention ⓘ

8.8 %

215 of 2 446 votes cast

Participation 84.6 % — EPP median 91.0 %, 187 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
Participation among the 187 members of the EPP with enough votes.
FigureParticipation
Sander SMIT84.6 %
EPP median91.0 %
Lowest in the group23.2 %
Highest in the group99.7 %
Members187
With majority line 70.7 % — EPP median 93.5 %, 187 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
With majority line among the 187 members of the EPP with enough votes.
FigureWith majority line
Sander SMIT70.7 %
EPP median93.5 %
Lowest in the group66.7 %
Highest in the group98.9 %
Members187
  • 2025, 2 891 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of EPP; 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.
  • This member changed group during the term, but sat in EPP throughout this period; each vote counts them in the group of that day.

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
21 May 2026The need to reduce work-related fatalities Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 17 160 for, 296 against, 14 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026The need to reduce work-related fatalities Amendment 6 to paragraph 17 168 for, 300 against, 6 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026The need to reduce work-related fatalities Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 15 75 for, 330 against, 65 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026The need to reduce work-related fatalities Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 12 146 for, 316 against, 6 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026The need to reduce work-related fatalities Amendments 3 + 5 (voted as one) to paragraph 1 181 for, 267 against, 25 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 263 for, 83 against, 154 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Abstained
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on recital AH 294 for, 144 against, 70 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on recital AF 285 for, 198 against, 30 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on recital AC 238 for, 217 against, 57 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Recital S — part 2 273 for, 160 against, 79 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Recital S — part 1 344 for, 111 against, 50 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Abstained
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Recital R — part 2 320 for, 152 against, 34 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Recital R — part 1 384 for, 113 against, 13 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on recital F 473 for, 12 against, 26 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Recital A — part 2 303 for, 178 against, 27 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Recital A — part 1 437 for, 28 against, 48 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 83 427 for, 42 against, 42 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Abstained
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 81 307 for, 146 against, 58 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 79 327 for, 154 against, 31 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 64 266 for, 234 against, 25 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 58 507 for, 3 against, 16 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 55 373 for, 76 against, 79 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Abstained
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 53 248 for, 158 against, 114 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Paragraph 49 — part 2 358 for, 134 against, 30 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Paragraph 49 — part 1 421 for, 77 against, 33 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 43 261 for, 105 against, 174 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Paragraph 37 — part 2 245 for, 275 against, 20 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Paragraph 37 — part 1 286 for, 182 against, 65 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Paragraph 36 — part 2 299 for, 134 against, 103 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Abstained
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Paragraph 36 — part 1 472 for, 33 against, 33 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 28 190 for, 311 against, 39 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 22 321 for, 118 against, 102 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 19 505 for, 29 against, 9 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 15 460 for, 14 against, 64 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 14 181 for, 342 against, 20 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap Separate vote on paragraph 14 496 for, 7 against, 35 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 337 for, 178 against, 44 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 7 to recital AY 175 for, 378 against, 2 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 6 to recital Y 122 for, 432 against, 4 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 13 to recital A 293 for, 263 against, 10 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Paragraph 56 — part 2 537 for, 26 against, 3 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Paragraph 56 — part 1 378 for, 171 against, 16 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 43 to paragraph 56 162 for, 384 against, 20 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 42 to paragraph 55 166 for, 356 against, 40 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 12 to paragraph 43 501 for, 49 against, 15 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Separate vote on paragraph 40 531 for, 24 against, 13 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Separate vote on paragraph 37 391 for, 90 against, 84 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 36 — part 2 226 for, 296 against, 46 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 36 — part 1 388 for, 120 against, 62 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
21 May 2026The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 36 279 for, 121 against, 167 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded 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 9 of 51 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=19&period=2025&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=19&period=2025&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/125325?page=19&period=2025&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}
}