Member · Former member
Tom BERENDSEN
EPP · Netherlands · left on 22 February 2026
- Group
- EPP PPE
- Country
- Netherlands
- Roll-call participation
- 99.8 %ⓘ of 431 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.9 % · 2026, roll calls
- With majority line
- 97.4 %ⓘ of 430 votes where the group had a line · EPP median 93.7 %
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 ⓘ
99.8 %
430 of 431 roll calls while in office
EPP median: 91.0 % (+8.8 pts)
Chamber median: 90.9 %
With majority line ⓘ
97.4 %
419 of 430 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 93.7 % (+3.7 pts)
2 opposite (for ↔ against), 5 abstained against the line
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Tom BERENDSEN | 99.8 % |
| EPP median | 91.0 % |
| Lowest in the group | 2.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 100.0 % |
| Members | 189 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Tom BERENDSEN | 97.4 % |
| EPP median | 93.7 % |
| Lowest in the group | 70.9 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.9 % |
| Members | 188 |
- 2026, 2 521 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.
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
| Sitting | Roll calls | Voted in |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Jan 2026 | 67 | 67 |
| 21 Jan 2026 | 112 | 112 |
| 22 Jan 2026 | 58 | 58 |
| 9 Feb 2026 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 Feb 2026 | 38 | 38 |
| 11 Feb 2026 | 13 | 13 |
| 12 Feb 2026 | 141 | 140 |
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.
Dossiers
No rapporteur, shadow or negotiator role recorded this term.
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 10
- Climate & environment 6
- Defence & security 6
- Foreign affairs 6
- Energy 5
- Transport & tourism 4
- Trade & customs 2
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 1
- Health 1
- EU institutions & Parliament 1
- Justice, rule of law & rights 1
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 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.
23 contributions recorded; 33 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 14
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 7
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 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 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). “Tom BERENDSEN”. Member record. memberId 197778. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197778?page=28&period=2026&vscope=all (retrieved 30 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197778. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/197778?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-197778,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Tom BERENDSEN}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197778?page=28&period=2026&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197778?page=28&period=2026&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-30},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 197778. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197778. 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}
}