Member
Christophe BAY
Patriots · France
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 ⓘ
88.2 %
5 120 of 5 808 roll calls while in office
Patriots median: 91.1 % (−3.0 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
91.8 %
4 686 of 5 107 votes where their group had a line
Patriots median: 82.7 % (+9.1 pts)
26 opposite (for ↔ against), 18 abstained against the line
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Christophe BAY | 88.2 % |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Christophe BAY | 91.8 % |
| 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 final roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
| Date | Decision | Result | Position | Majority line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Oct 2024 | Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States | Passed 444 for, 179 against, 20 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 23 Oct 2024 | General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections | Resolution rejected 233 for, 360 against, 59 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 22 Oct 2024 | Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine | Passed 518 for, 56 against, 61 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
| 22 Oct 2024 | Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023 | Passed 531 for, 91 against, 35 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 22 Oct 2024 | Draft amending budget No 4/2024: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to some decentralised agencies | Passed 522 for, 115 against, 25 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 22 Oct 2024 | Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/001 BE/Match-Smatch | Passed 601 for, 47 against, 17 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 22 Oct 2024 | 2022 discharge: EU general budget – European Council and Council | Passed 431 for, 131 against, 83 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 10 Oct 2024 | The cases of unjustly imprisoned Uyghurs in China, notably Ilham Tohti and Gulshan Abbas | Adopted 540 for, 23 against, 47 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 9 Oct 2024 | Strengthening 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 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
| 9 Oct 2024 | The democratic backsliding and threats to political pluralism in Georgia | Adopted 495 for, 73 against, 86 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
| 8 Oct 2024 | Mobilisation 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 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
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 International TradeINTA Committee | Member | 10 Oct 2024 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Substitute | 9 Oct 2024 | now |
| Committee on Security and DefenceSEDE Committee | Substitute | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Türkiye Joint Parliamentary CommitteeD-TR Joint parliamentary committee | Member | 10 Oct 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with South AfricaD-ZA Delegation | Substitute | 9 Oct 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the countries of South AsiaDSAS Delegation | Substitute | 9 Oct 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and CountrysideIG10-04 Intergroup / working group | Vice-chair | 31 Mar 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Christians in the Middle EastIG10-07 Intergroup / working group | Member | 20 Feb 2025 | now |
| Subcommittee on Human RightsDROI Subcommittee | Substitute | 12 Dec 2024 | 1 May 2025 |
| Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and CountrysideIG10-04 Intergroup / working group | Member | 4 Feb 2025 | 30 Mar 2025 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opportunities and challenges presented by a comprehensive artificial intelligence strategy for EU trade | Shadow rapporteur | INTA | 14 Apr 2026 |
| Hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU’s territorial integrity and critical security and defence infrastructure | Shadow rapporteur | SEDE | 16 Mar 2026 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | INTA | 23 Feb 2026 |
| Establishing Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, for the period 2028-2034 laying down its rules for participation and dissemination, and repealing Regulation (EU) 2021/695 | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | SEDE | 3 Feb 2026 |
| Implementing the bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products | Shadow rapporteur | INTA | 24 Nov 2025 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | SEDE | 25 Aug 2025 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | SEDE | 15 Jul 2025 |
| INTA delegation to Indonesia (13-17 April 2025) | Official delegation | 10 Feb 2025 | |
| Déclaration de conflits d'intérêts rapporteur fictif INTA Filtrage des investissements étrangers dans l'UE | Shadow rapporteur | INTA | 22 Jan 2025 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 31
- Economy & single market 28
- Trade & customs 19
- Defence & security 14
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 10
- Justice, rule of law & rights 9
- EU budget & funds 8
- EU institutions & Parliament 6
- Climate & environment 5
- Energy 5
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 4
- Transport & tourism 4
- Digital, AI & data 3
- Health 3
- Migration & asylum 3
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.
13 contributions recorded; 2 on behalf of their group; 18 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, 57
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 France 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). “Christophe BAY”. Member record. memberId 261797. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/261797?page=13&vscope=final (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/261797. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/261797?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-261797,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Christophe BAY}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/261797?page=13&vscope=final}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/261797?page=13&vscope=final},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 261797. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/261797. 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}
}