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Inese Vaidere

European People's Party (EPP) · JV

89%participation, 324 of 364 votesMedian: EPP 90% · Latvia 89% · all MEPs 89%
96%of votes matched the position of EPP
97%of For and Against votes on the winning side
14votes off the group line, of 324 comparable

Details

How they were elected

Seat
Took up the seat in place of Valdis Dombrovskis
List
Jaunā Vienotība (JV)130,563 votes, 25.1%, 2 seats
Candidate score
147,075
Electoral rule
In Latvia, personal votes for candidates decide, fully or in part, which of a list's candidates win its seats.

List share and seats: European Parliament, 2024 European election results (results.elections.europa.eu).1 points. List votes, candidate score: Central Election Commission of Latvia (CVK, data.gov.lv, CC0); a candidate's score is the list's ballots, minus ballots that struck the candidate out, plus ballots that marked the candidate with a plus, collected on 13 October 2026.

Where the votes came from

Where the Jaunā Vienotība (JV) list won votes in the 2024 European election

The map shows the share of valid votes won by this list in each of the 43 municipalities: 128,529 votes, 25.3% of valid votes. The 2,034 votes cast abroad have no municipality and are not on the map.

7.8% to 21.8%21.8% to 25.7%25.7% to 28.2%28.2% to 30.2%30.2% to 36.1%% of valid votes

Strongest areas (at least 1,000 valid votes)

  • Varakļānu novads36.1% · 368
  • Limbažu novads33.2% · 3,352
  • Smiltenes novads32.9% · 2,118
  • Valmieras novads31.3% · 5,556
  • Cēsu novads30.9% · 4,897

Results by municipality: BLUE_EP (Hublet, F. (2024). BLUE_EP: A Dataset of Municipality-Level Results of European Parliament Elections. Codebook v1. Paris: Groupe d'études géopolitiques. 10.5281/zenodo.14569325, CC BY 4.0), compiled from the official results. Municipal boundaries: Ministry of Smart Administration and Regional Development of Latvia (VARAM), Administrative territories 2021, CC0 1.0, simplified.

How Inese Vaidere voted

Most recent first

Source: European Parliament roll-call votes, via HowTheyVote (ODbL). Collected 8 November 2026.

Off the group line

14 of 324 comparable votes

Votes in 2026

For 289Abstain 1Against 34Did not vote 40

Alignment with each group

Share of Inese Vaidere's votes that matched each group's position

EPPown group96%
S&D90%
PfE45%
ECR70%
Renew91%
Greens/EFA79%
The Left52%
ESN29%

In Parliament

Country
Latvia
Group
European People's Party (EPP)
National party
JV

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Method

Participation: Share of the votes the Radar follows (HowTheyVote main votes and final roll-call votes) in which the MEP voted. Not attendance; excused absences are not counted. Winning side: Of the For and Against votes, the share on the side of the result: For when adopted, Against when rejected. Abstentions and absences are left out. Off the group line: a vote different from the position of the MEP's own group on that day; divided groups and non-attached members are left out. Full method