Member
Tom VANDENDRIESSCHE
Patriots · Belgium
- Group
- Patriots PfE
- Country
- Belgium
- Roll-call participation
- 98.6 %ⓘ of 5 928 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.2 % · whole term, roll calls
- With majority line
- 84.2 %ⓘ of 5 824 votes where the group had a line · Patriots median 82.7 %
More facts (5)
- National party
- Vlaams Belang
- In office
- Since 16 Jul 2024
- Against clear line
- 378 of 4 640 votesⓘ
- Committees
- IMCO (substitute), LIBE
- Member id
- 185771
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 ⓘ
98.6 %
5 845 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
Patriots median: 91.1 % (+7.5 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
84.2 %
4 903 of 5 824 votes where their group had a line
Patriots median: 82.7 % (+1.5 pts)
116 opposite (for ↔ against), 208 abstained against the line, 54 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Tom VANDENDRIESSCHE | 98.6 % |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Tom VANDENDRIESSCHE | 84.2 % |
| 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 the Internal Market and Consumer ProtectionIMCO Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)DASE Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countriesDMAS Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the MediterraneanDMED Parliamentary assembly | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Christians in the Middle EastIG10-07 Intergroup / working group | Member | 20 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on DisabilityIG10-10 Intergroup / working group | Member | 11 Mar 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Wine, Quality Foodstuffs and SpiritsIG10-28 Intergroup / working group | Member | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Justice, rule of law & rights 25
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 14
- Digital, AI & data 13
- EU budget & funds 12
- Foreign affairs 12
- EU institutions & Parliament 12
- Migration & asylum 12
- Economy & single market 8
- Transport & tourism 4
- Climate & environment 2
- Defence & security 2
- Energy 2
- Trade & customs 2
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.
28 contributions recorded; 1 on behalf of their group; 37 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 58
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 23
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 Belgium 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). “Tom VANDENDRIESSCHE”. Member record. memberId 185771. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/185771?docs=all&page=118&vscope=all (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/185771. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/185771?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-185771,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Tom VANDENDRIESSCHE}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/185771?docs=all&page=118&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/185771?docs=all&page=118&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 185771. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/185771. 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}
}