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Jessika VAN LEEUWEN

ECR · Netherlands

Group
ECR Changed group: EPP 16 Jul 2024 – 10 Mar 2026 → ECR since 11 Mar 2026
Country
Netherlands
Roll-call participation
98.3 %ⓘ 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.
With majority line
74.1 %ⓘ of 5 824 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
1 261 of 5 349 votesⓘ
Committees
AGRI, INTA (substitute)
Member id
256983
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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 ⓘ

98.3 %

5 827 of 5 928 roll calls while in office

Chamber median: 90.2 %

With majority line ⓘ

74.1 %

4 315 of 5 824 votes where their group had a line

Against clear line ⓘ

23.6 %

1 261 of 5 349 votes where their group had a clear line

746 opposite (for ↔ against), 484 abstained against the line, 31 voted for or against when the line was to abstain

Abstention ⓘ

11.1 %

644 of 5 827 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 202697.8 % of 4 079 median 89.6 % (+8.2 pts)70.3 % of 3 989 median 93.7 % (−23.4 pts)27.6 % of 3 7809.5 % of 3 989
ECR 11 Mar 2026 – 17 Sept 202699.4 % of 1 849 median 93.1 % (+6.3 pts)82.2 % of 1 835 median 89.4 % (−7.1 pts)14.0 % of 1 56914.5 % of 1 838
  • 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.

Votes, 620

Export

Every final 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.
DateDecisionResultPositionMajority line
23 Oct 2024Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States Passed 444 for, 179 against, 20 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For
23 Oct 2024General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections Resolution rejected 233 for, 360 against, 59 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For
22 Oct 2024Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine Passed 518 for, 56 against, 61 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
22 Oct 2024Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023 Passed 531 for, 91 against, 35 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For
22 Oct 2024Draft amending budget No 4/2024: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to some decentralised agencies Passed 522 for, 115 against, 25 abstainedPosition: Abstained ≠ groupMajority line: For
22 Oct 2024Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/001 BE/Match-Smatch Passed 601 for, 47 against, 17 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
22 Oct 20242022 discharge: EU general budget – European Council and Council Passed 431 for, 131 against, 83 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
10 Oct 2024The cases of unjustly imprisoned Uyghurs in China, notably Ilham Tohti and Gulshan Abbas Adopted 540 for, 23 against, 47 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
9 Oct 2024Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration Adopted 508 for, 53 against, 104 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
9 Oct 2024The democratic backsliding and threats to political pluralism in Georgia Adopted 495 for, 73 against, 86 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
8 Oct 2024Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and France further to natural disasters that occurred in 2023 Passed 632 for, 7 against, 3 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024EU/USA Agreement on the launch of Galileo satellites from U.S. Territory Consent given 582 for, 16 against, 17 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’ Adopted 565 for, 8 against, 43 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024The severe situation of political prisoners in Belarus Adopted 549 for, 21 against, 37 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024The case of José Daniel Ferrier García in Cuba Adopted 380 for, 182 against, 51 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States Adopted 425 for, 131 against, 63 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024Situation in Venezuela Adopted 309 for, 201 against, 12 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
18 Sept 2024Maximum residue levels for carbendazim and thiophanate-methyl Objection passed 516 for, 129 against, 27 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
18 Sept 2024Maximum residue levels for cyproconazole Objection passed 522 for, 127 against, 28 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
17 Jul 2024The need for the EU's continuous support for Ukraine Adopted 495 for, 137 against, 47 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For

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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 7 of 107 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
Roll calls held at each sitting while in office and how many of them the member voted in.
SittingRoll callsVoted in
17 Jul 20242322
18 Jul 202411
16 Sept 202422
18 Sept 202422
19 Sept 20249292
7 Oct 202420
8 Oct 202411
9 Oct 20241818
10 Oct 202444
21 Oct 202422
22 Oct 20241010
23 Oct 2024129128
24 Oct 20241313
13 Nov 202420
14 Nov 20243636
25 Nov 202422
26 Nov 20241818
27 Nov 20241111
28 Nov 20245757
17 Dec 20241313
18 Dec 20243333
19 Dec 20244545
20 Jan 202522
21 Jan 202511
22 Jan 202522
23 Jan 20254544
10 Feb 202510
11 Feb 20253232
12 Feb 20251010
13 Feb 20253029
10 Mar 202521
11 Mar 202599
12 Mar 2025228223
13 Mar 20252424
31 Mar 202533
1 Apr 20253535
2 Apr 2025251250
3 Apr 20256261
5 May 202555
6 May 20251010
7 May 2025220219
8 May 2025103101
21 May 202520
22 May 20255353
16 Jun 202522
17 Jun 20254138
18 Jun 20259191
19 Jun 20258787
7 Jul 202511
8 Jul 20255555
9 Jul 2025134134
10 Jul 20253635
8 Sept 202511
9 Sept 2025101101
10 Sept 20253434
11 Sept 20256969
6 Oct 202522
7 Oct 202555
8 Oct 20255555
9 Oct 20256565
20 Oct 202533
21 Oct 20251312
22 Oct 2025186185
23 Oct 20255555
13 Nov 2025267265
24 Nov 202533
25 Nov 20257574
26 Nov 202510099
27 Nov 2025125124
15 Dec 202544
16 Dec 20256666
17 Dec 20254341
18 Dec 20254241
20 Jan 20266767
21 Jan 2026112110
22 Jan 20265810
9 Feb 202622
10 Feb 20263838
11 Feb 20261313
12 Feb 2026141141
24 Feb 20264343
9 Mar 202611
10 Mar 2026197193
11 Mar 20266060
12 Mar 20263434
25 Mar 202633
26 Mar 20266969
27 Apr 202620
28 Apr 2026225225
29 Apr 2026296295
30 Apr 20266868
18 May 202644
19 May 202632
20 May 20269695
21 May 20269898
15 Jun 202620
16 Jun 20264040
17 Jun 2026127127
18 Jun 20267777
6 Jul 202620
7 Jul 20267272
8 Jul 2026144143
9 Jul 20266766
14 Sept 202611
15 Sept 2026155155
16 Sept 20268080
17 Sept 2026124124

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
Sander SMIT changed group ECRNetherlands98 % of 5 262 shared87 %
Ivaylo VALCHEV ECRBulgaria82 % of 1 784 shared81 %
Stephen Nikola BARTULICA ECRCroatia81 % of 1 648 shared81 %
Nora JUNCO GARCÍA changed group ECRSpain81 % of 1 821 shared81 %
Diego SOLIER changed group ECRSpain81 % of 1 816 shared81 %
Adrian-George AXINIA ECRRomania80 % of 1 816 shared81 %
Mario MANTOVANI ECRItaly79 % of 1 124 shared81 %
Ruggero RAZZA ECRItaly79 % of 1 386 shared81 %
Marco SQUARTA ECRItaly79 % of 1 213 shared81 %
Reinis POZŅAKS ECRLatvia78 % of 1 829 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 ECRCzechia69 % of 3 839 shared50 %
Bert-Jan RUISSEN ECRNetherlands69 % of 3 978 shared50 %
Jaak MADISON ECREstonia69 % of 3 250 shared50 %
Aurelijus VERYGA ECRLithuania68 % of 3 633 shared50 %
Ondřej KRUTÍLEK ECRCzechia68 % of 3 976 shared50 %
Reinis POZŅAKS ECRLatvia67 % of 3 770 shared50 %
Alessandro CIRIANI ECRItaly67 % of 3 263 shared50 %
Pietro FIOCCHI ECRItaly67 % of 3 402 shared50 %
Roberts ZĪLE ECRLatvia67 % of 2 683 shared50 %
Veronika VRECIONOVÁ ECRCzechia67 % of 3 899 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 Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentAGRI CommitteeMember11 Mar 2026now
Committee on International TradeINTA CommitteeSubstitute25 Mar 2026now
Delegation for relations with MercosurDMER DelegationSubstitute15 Apr 2026now
Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary AssemblyDLAT Parliamentary assemblyMember25 Mar 2026now
Intergroup on Sustainable LivestockIG10-15 Intergroup / working groupMember31 Jan 2025now
Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of AnimalsIG10-27 Intergroup / working groupMember8 Jan 2025now
Committee on Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentAGRI CommitteeMember19 Jul 202410 Mar 2026
Committee on International TradeINTA CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 202410 Mar 2026
Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 202410 Mar 2026
Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean CommunityDAND DelegationVice-chair20 Feb 202510 Mar 2026

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Dossiers

Dossier: the procedure the declaration names (“No dossier named” for a delegation without one). Role: rapporteur, shadow rapporteur, negotiator or delegation. Committee: the committee that appointed them. Date: of the declaration.
DossierRoleCommitteeDate
EuroLat meeting mexicoOfficial delegationDLAT21 May 2026
Amending Regulations (EC) No 1272/2008, (EC) No 1223/2009 and (EU) 2019/1009 as regards simplification of certain requirements and procedures for chemical productsShadow rapporteur for an opinionAGRI11 Jan 2026
Adjustment of customs duties on the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America and opening of tariff quotas for imports of certain goods originating in the United States of AmericaOpinion rapporteurAGRI3 Nov 2025
No dossier namedDelegation vice-chairDAND9 Sept 2025
How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases?Shadow rapporteurAGRI17 Jun 2025
eurolat meeting lima PeruOfficial delegationDLAT22 May 2025
No dossier namedDelegation vice-chairDAND16 Jan 2025
INIShadow rapporteurAGRI16 Jan 2025

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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.

32 contributions recorded; 3 on behalf of their group; 39 minutes of speaking time.

Date: the sitting. Debate: the item debated, and the group when they spoke on its behalf. Kind: speech or written statement, with speaking time. Verbatim: the verbatim report on Parliament’s site.
DateDebateKindVerbatim
15 Sept 2026Devastating heatwaves, wildfires and droughts in Europe: lessons from summer 2026 (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
15 Sept 2026Devastating heatwaves, wildfires and droughts in Europe: lessons from summer 2026 (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
7 Jul 2026EU-Mexico (joint debate) Speech · 1 minRead
18 May 2026European solidarity: key to securing medicine access in a shifting geopolitical era (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
30 Apr 2026How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases? (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
15 Dec 2025Breeders' protests following a lumpy-skin-disease outbreak in France: implications of the EU approach on sanitary and on animal health (debate) Speech · 2 minRead
15 Dec 2025Amending certain CAP Regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penalties (debate) Speech · 2 minRead
27 Nov 2025Fur farming and the placing of farmed fur products on the market (debate) on behalf of EPPSpeech · 2 minRead
7 Oct 2025EU political strategy on Latin America (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
7 Oct 2025Common agricultural policy (joint debate) Speech · 2 minRead

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Questions and motions, 28

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
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—
9 Jun 2026Chinese tomato concentrate imports: protecting EU producers and food security P-10-2026-002375Priority written questionwith 23 co-authors13 Jul 2026
11 May 2026Shipment of salmonella-contaminated chicken from Brazil E-10-2026-001939Written questionwith 2 co-authors22 Jul 2026
7 May 2026EU-Mercosur agreement: exposure of the European market to the JBS Group and the risks of geoeconomic dependence in agricultural supply chains E-10-2026-001890Written questionwith 21 co-authors30 Jun 2026
28 Apr 2026Rising agricultural production costs and supply chain disruptions following conflict escalations in the Middle East E-10-2026-001734Written questionwith 15 co-authors22 Jun 2026
24 Apr 2026Six years of unnoticed non-compliance with animal welfare requirements in Chinese slaughterhouses E-10-2026-001691Written question17 Jul 2026
24 Apr 2026Performance obligations with regard to the European Innovation Partnership E-10-2026-001685Written questionwith 1 co-author18 Jun 2026
22 Apr 2026MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on protecting places of worship in the EU from foreign political interference and state-linked influence operations B-10-2026-0187Motion for a resolutionwith 16 co-authors—
25 Feb 2026MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the establishment of a European blacklist of ultra-violent extremist organisations (UVEOs) B-10-2026-0151Motion for a resolutionwith 16 co-authors—

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Amendments tabled in committee, 80

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 2026Strengthening competitiveness, resilience and fairness in EU agriculture AGRI-AM-791100 AGRI25
17 Jul 2026on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790898 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 AGRI5
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-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-790955 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-790954 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-790919 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 AGRI10

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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 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). “Jessika VAN LEEUWEN”. Member record. memberId 256983. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256983?page=13&vscope=final (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256983. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256983?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-256983,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Jessika VAN LEEUWEN}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256983?page=13&vscope=final}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256983?page=13&vscope=final},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Member record. memberId 256983. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256983. 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}
}