Member
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
- 98.1 %ⓘ of 620 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.6 % · whole term, final votes 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: 90.6 %
21 opposite (for ↔ against), 60 abstained against the line, 3 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 | 97.6 % of 417 median 90.9 % (+6.7 pts) | 84.0 % of 407 median 95.4 % (−11.4 pts) | 14.8 % of 372 | 11.3 % of 407 |
| ECR 11 Mar 2026 – 17 Sept 2026 | 99.0 % of 203 median 93.6 % (+5.4 pts) | 79.0 % of 200 median 86.9 % (−7.9 pts) | 17.5 % of 166 | 24.9 % of 201 |
- Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name.
- “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 Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentAGRI Committee | Member | 11 Mar 2026 | now |
| Committee on International TradeINTA Committee | Substitute | 25 Mar 2026 | now |
| Delegation for relations with MercosurDMER Delegation | Substitute | 15 Apr 2026 | now |
| Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary AssemblyDLAT Parliamentary assembly | Member | 25 Mar 2026 | now |
| Intergroup on Sustainable LivestockIG10-15 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of AnimalsIG10-27 Intergroup / working group | Member | 8 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentAGRI Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | 10 Mar 2026 |
| Committee on International TradeINTA Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | 10 Mar 2026 |
| Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | 10 Mar 2026 |
| Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean CommunityDAND Delegation | Vice-chair | 20 Feb 2025 | 10 Mar 2026 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| EuroLat meeting mexico | Official delegation | DLAT | 21 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 products | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | AGRI | 11 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 America | Opinion rapporteur | AGRI | 3 Nov 2025 |
| No dossier named | Delegation vice-chair | DAND | 9 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 rapporteur | AGRI | 17 Jun 2025 |
| eurolat meeting lima Peru | Official delegation | DLAT | 22 May 2025 |
| No dossier named | Delegation vice-chair | DAND | 16 Jan 2025 |
| INI | Shadow rapporteur | AGRI | 16 Jan 2025 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 24
- Foreign affairs 18
- Economy & single market 16
- Health 9
- Trade & customs 9
- EU budget & funds 8
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 5
- Climate & environment 3
- Justice, rule of law & rights 3
- Defence & security 2
- EU institutions & Parliament 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.
32 contributions recorded; 3 on behalf of their group; 39 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 28
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 80
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). “Jessika VAN LEEUWEN”. Member record. memberId 256983. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256983?scope=final&speeches=all&vscope=all (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?scope=final&speeches=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256983?scope=final&speeches=all&vscope=all},
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}
}