Member
Sandra KALNIETE
EPP · Latvia
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 ⓘ
91.3 %
5 413 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
EPP median: 89.9 % (+1.4 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
98.1 %
5 310 of 5 413 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 93.6 % (+4.5 pts)
33 opposite (for ↔ against), 1 abstained against the line, 1 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Sandra KALNIETE | 91.3 % |
| EPP median | 89.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 17.0 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.6 % |
| Members | 196 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Sandra KALNIETE | 98.1 % |
| EPP median | 93.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 70.2 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.5 % |
| Members | 196 |
- Whole term, 5 928 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
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 Foreign AffairsAFET Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Culture and EducationCULT Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on International TradeINTA Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Special Committee on the European Democracy ShieldEUDS Special committee | Vice-chair | 3 Feb 2025 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation CommitteeD-RU Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association CommitteeD-UA Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary AssemblyDACP Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Caribbean-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDCAB Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Special Committee on the European Democracy ShieldEUDS Special committee | Member | 23 Jan 2025 | 2 Feb 2025 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| No dossier named | Shadow rapporteur | INTA | 4 Apr 2025 |
| No dossier named | Shadow rapporteur | AFET | 4 Apr 2025 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | AFET | 24 Mar 2025 |
| No dossier named | Shadow rapporteur | AFET | 6 Mar 2025 |
| No dossier named | Committee vice-chair | EUDS | 30 Jan 2025 |
| Standing Rapporteur on Russia | Rapporteur | AFET | 16 Dec 2024 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 40
- Defence & security 22
- Digital, AI & data 3
- Economy & single market 2
- Justice, rule of law & rights 2
- Transport & tourism 2
- EU budget & funds 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.
37 contributions recorded, 1 written statement; 7 on behalf of their group; 52 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 32
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 25
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 Latvia 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 7669c786bb14 (1 Oct 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
- 1 October 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Sandra KALNIETE”. Member record. memberId 96934. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/96934?page=80&roles=all&vscope=all (retrieved 1 October 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96934. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/96934?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 7669c786bb14 (1 Oct 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-96934,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Sandra KALNIETE}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/96934?page=80&roles=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/96934?page=80&roles=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-10-01},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 96934. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96934. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 7669c786bb14 (1 Oct 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}
}