About this site

EU Parl Watch shows how the European Parliament votes — every subject decided in plenary this term, how each political group and each Member voted, and the documents and procedures behind the votes — in plain English.

This is an independent prototype, not an official European Parliament service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the European Parliament. For the authoritative record use the Parliament’s own plenary votes and Open Data Portal.

Every page links to its source document or procedure, so each fact can be checked against the original.

Where the data comes from

Votes, results, members, political groups, documents, procedures, speeches and parliamentary questions all come from the European Parliament Open Data Portal (API version 2). Document texts are read from the official Word files the Parliament publishes.

Source: European Parliament, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). The data is reorganised and summarised here; results and counts are shown as published.

How fresh it is. Recent sittings are checked every 30 minutes, so a day’s results usually appear within an hour of the Parliament publishing them. Once a day the whole term is fetched again, so late corrections at the source are picked up. Votes last updated: 23 September 2026.

What the AI-written text does — and does not do

Some text on this site is written by a language model: the “What this vote decides” line under a decision, the “In short” summary of a document, “What changed” between two versions of a text, the day and week briefings, and topic and theme tags. Everything a model wrote is marked with ✦.

It never produces numbers. Results, vote counts, margins and statistics are computed from the official data. A summary that mentions a figure not found in its source text is rejected and never shown.
It works from the official text. Summaries point to the paragraphs they rest on, so you can read the original next to them.
It does not choose what matters. Which decisions appear in a briefing is decided by fixed rules (type of decision, how close the vote was), not by the model.
It is asked to stay neutral and to describe, not judge; wording that takes a side is filtered out.
It is written in advance, when new data arrives — not while you load the page — and rewritten only when its source changes.

Models can still misread a text. Topic tags in particular are automatic and may be wrong or incomplete. When it matters, check the linked document.

How the statistics are counted

Only roll-call votes record how each Member voted. Votes by show of hands record the outcome only, so they are not in any member statistic.
Shares are counted over the votes a Member could take part in while in office, so a Member who joined mid-term is not penalised. Rankings need at least 100 such votes.
Group loyalty compares a Member’s vote with the majority of their current group — for someone who changed group this is an approximation.
“Missed” votes cannot tell an excused absence from any other. The President of the Parliament by convention does not vote.
Non-attached Members belong to no group, so they have no group line to follow or break.

Words used on this site

Roll-call vote: A vote in which every MEP’s individual position is recorded and published.
Show of hands: A vote by raised hands. Only the outcome is recorded, not who voted how.
Amendment: A proposed change to the text, voted on before the final vote.
Split vote: A paragraph or amendment voted in separate parts, so groups can back one part and oppose another.
Separate vote: A paragraph voted on its own, usually so a group can vote against just that part.
Final vote: The last vote on a text as a whole, after all amendments. It decides whether the text is adopted.
Decisive vote: The vote that settles the subject, usually the final vote on the whole text.
Lapsed: Not put to a vote, because an earlier vote already settled the matter.
Proposal to reject: A motion to reject the whole text without voting on its content.
Provisional agreement: A deal negotiated between Parliament and the Council. Parliament then votes it through as one text.
1st reading: Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council.
2nd reading: Parliament’s vote on the Council’s position on a proposed law, after the first reading.
Consultation: Parliament gives its opinion on a proposal. The Council decides, but must wait for Parliament’s opinion.
Consent: Parliament can approve or reject the text, for example an international agreement, but cannot amend it.
Rapporteur: The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
Group line: How most of a political group’s members voted: For, Against, Abstained, or Split when no position had a majority.
Group loyalty: Share of votes in which a member voted the same way as the majority of their political group.
Against own group: Votes in which a member voted differently from the majority of their political group.
Non-attached members: Members who do not belong to any political group. They have no group line to follow or break.

Found a mistake?

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If a result or count looks wrong, compare it with the linked official source first: this site shows the Parliament’s published figures, and corrections at the source are picked up by the next daily refresh.