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The political landscape, as the votes describe it
Every point is one Member of the European Parliament, placed by how they voted on every roll-call vote of the term. Nobody assigned these positions — they fall out of the voting record itself.
What separates the axes
The votes whose outcome most distinguishes members along each axis. An axis has no inherent direction: only distances and groupings mean anything, never "left" or "right" of zero.
The same chamber, with subjects for axes
The main landscape uses the axes that separate members best, which makes them precise and unnameable. Here each axis is one subject instead — the main line of disagreement among the votes on that subject alone. You choose which three frame the view. An axis still has no inherent direction: what gives an end its meaning is the texts a member sitting there voted for.
The topic axes
Members
Filter by term, political group or country, or search by name. Figures are roll-call participation: Parliament does not publish a record of who was absent.
What the axes are made of
The political space is not drawn from any theory: the axes are simply the patterns that best separate how members voted. Each has no inherent direction — what gives an end its meaning is which votes a member is voting for when they sit there.
How each group treated it
Recent votes
Topics
How often each political group's majority voted in favour, by theme. These are the same themes the axes are described in — Parliament's own classification, read one level above the individual file.
Stories
Written by people, about what the votes show. Every number in them is computed from the verified record at publish time — but the readings between the numbers are arguments, and they are marked as such.