When the European Parliament decides by roll call, the record is complete: what was voted on, when, and how each of the 700-plus Members voted. What the record is not, in its raw form, is readable. Results are spread across session documents, amendment texts live in separate files, and a single legislative dossier can produce dozens of individual votes. Votes, the roll-call vote explorer, assembles all of it into one navigable view of the 10th term’s roll-call votes.
Organised the way Parliament actually works
The explorer groups votes by dossier (the report or resolution they belong to), with the final or whole-text vote as the headline and the individual votes beneath it: amendments, split votes, separate votes on paragraphs and recitals. Each row carries the tallies (for, against, abstention) as a proportional bar, so the closeness of any vote is visible at a glance. One click expands a vote into the full breakdown: every Member’s position, grouped by political group and by country, with each group’s internal split shown rather than averaged away.
See what was actually voted on
A row labelled “Amendment 5” or “§ 12, part 1” tells you nothing by itself. Where the Parliament has published the underlying text, the explorer shows it: each amendment and split-vote row carries a compact excerpt of the wording that was voted on, and expanding the vote shows the full text: for amendments, as a track-changes comparison against the original, with insertions and deletions marked exactly as tabled. This is the same text from the Parliament’s published documents, reproduced without commentary.
Search down to the amendment text
The search box covers titles, document numbers, and procedure references: paste a code like 2024/0006(COD) and you get that dossier’s votes. The deep-search option goes further: it searches inside the voted-on texts themselves, so you can find every roll-call vote on wording that mentions a phrase, even when the phrase never appears in a title. A page-level filter narrows the votes already on screen instantly, and filters by policy category, plenary session, date range, or final votes only strip the list down to what you are researching.
Questions the explorer answers
How did each political group (and each national delegation inside it) vote on a specific amendment? Which parts of a report were contested and which passed comfortably? What exactly did the chamber change in a Commission proposal before adopting it? Was a headline-making vote actually close? Every answer is a public fact, sourced from the Parliament’s published roll-call results and vote texts via the Open Data portal, and every screen links back to the underlying record.
Part of a larger record
Votes is the vote-level companion to the rest of the site: the MEP Activity Explorer counts each Member’s recorded work across all activity types, Vote Match computes vote-by-vote agreement between Members from the same roll-call record, and each Member’s profile shows their participation, corrections of votes, and explanations of vote. Different views, one official source.
Roll-call votes are the hardest currency in parliamentary accountability: recorded, attributable, and permanent. Votes makes that currency spendable: readable by anyone, in minutes, without a single PDF.