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Pivotal players

Who decides the knife-edge votes. Of the last 35 roll-call votes, 8 were close enough to swing — here is who shaped them.

Kingmakers

Most often on the winning side of knife-edge votes.

  1. 1Malika SORELNon-attached · 5/5 close votes won100%
  2. 2Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁNon-attached · 7/8 close votes won88%
  3. 3Bruno GONÇALVESS&D · 7/8 close votes won88%
  4. 4Julien SANCHEZPfE · 6/7 close votes won86%
  5. 5Catherine GRISETPfE · 6/7 close votes won86%
  6. 6Gilles PENNELLEPfE · 6/7 close votes won86%
  7. 7France JAMETPfE · 6/7 close votes won86%
  8. 8Virginie JORONPfE · 6/7 close votes won86%
  9. 9Jean-Paul GARRAUDPfE · 6/7 close votes won86%
  10. 10André ROUGÉPfE · 6/7 close votes won86%

Swing members

Least predictable when it's close — break their group line.

  1. 1Manuela RIPAEPP · 5/7 close votes off the line71%
  2. 2Bart GROOTHUISRenew · 4/6 close votes off the line67%
  3. 3Alvise PÉREZNon-attached · 5/8 close votes off the line63%
  4. 4Branko GRIMSNon-attached · 3/5 close votes off the line60%
  5. 5Sirpa PIETIKÄINENEPP · 4/7 close votes off the line57%
  6. 6Katri KULMUNIRenew · 4/7 close votes off the line57%
  7. 7Anouk VAN BRUGRenew · 4/8 close votes off the line50%
  8. 8Seán KELLYEPP · 3/7 close votes off the line43%
  9. 9Maria WALSHEPP · 3/7 close votes off the line43%
  10. 10Jeannette BALJEURenew · 3/7 close votes off the line43%

A vote is "close" when the for/against margin is within 15%. Kingmaker = on the winning side; swing = voting against your group's for/against majority on a close vote. Members in no political group (for swing), and those with fewer than 5 comparable close votes, are excluded. Data via the European Parliament Open Data Portal and HowTheyVote.eu.