Wthin EP, it is perhaps strange, but it is difficult to know “Who voted for and who voted against”
Indeed MEPs voted around 20,000 times since their elections in June 2004 (see References)
That means that most of the time, it is impossible to know how an MEP votes. The rare roll-call votes are also not easy to find on Europarl website.
Nevertheless it would be important for academic researchers to get access to anonymized voting data of the electronic vote system in order to analyse these elements according to theme, political group and nationality, gender, age … of the MEPs and also to offer a better tracking of the MEP's votes.
Transparency did you say ?
See below the good practice of OpenCongress: How it is possible to perform.a tracking of the MEP’s votes.
References:
European Parliament
Watch video on voting procedures : (02:08)
Result of roll-call votes: an example
Download PV_roll_call_20071129_.pdf
Where to find “Result of roll-call votes”: a long path …
Select Activities
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/public.do?language=en
Select Parliamentary Business
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/expert.do?language=EN
Select Minutes
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/expert/pv.do?language=EN
Select Thursday, 29 November 2007 – Brussels
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Roll-call votes
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