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Member of the European Parliament · Portugal S&D

Sérgio Gonçalves

MEP for Portugal · Socialists & Democrats · Partido Socialista · official EP profile

As of 8 November 2026, Sérgio Gonçalves (S&D, Portugal) has declared 65 lobby meetings this term - rank 360 of 720 MEPs by declared meetings, a place shared with 1 other MEP.

That is somewhat below the Parliament average of 100 meetings per MEP, and it ranks 94 of 135 in the S&D group.

75% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - above the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 52%.

65
declared meetings
current term
65
records since 2016
full dataset
75%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 52% EP‑wide
360/720
rank, all MEPs
tied with 1 other
94/135
rank in S&D

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Compared with the averages

Sérgio Gonçalves, this term
65
Parliament average
100
S&D average
134

Transparency this term

Monthly declared meetings (bars) and the share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link, including diplomatic and government entries (line), July 2024 to November 2026. This is the same current-term window as the figures above, beginning 16 July 2024.

Current month, partial through 6 Nov 2026: 0 declared meetings in Nov 2026. Peak: 8 in Sep 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%08July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 8 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 5 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 4 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 2 declared meetingsApril 2025: 1 declared meetingMay 2025: 1 declared meetingJune 2025: 2 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 2 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 5 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 5 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 4 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 2 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 3 declared meetingsApril 2026: 1 declared meetingMay 2026: 0 declared meetingsJune 2026: 6 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 4 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2026: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonths with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; the dashes join the months either sideMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link2024202520260%25%50%75%100%08July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 8 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 5 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 4 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 2 declared meetingsApril 2025: 1 declared meetingMay 2025: 1 declared meetingJune 2025: 2 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 2 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 5 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 5 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 4 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 2 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 3 declared meetingsApril 2026: 1 declared meetingMay 2026: 0 declared meetingsJune 2026: 6 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 4 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2026: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonths with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; the dashes join the months either sideMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link2024202520260%50%100%08202420252026
declared meetings per month (left axis)all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link; diplomacy included (right axis)
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Declared meetings each month, and the share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link.
MonthMeetingsLinked
Jul 20240-
Aug 20240-
Sep 20248100%
Oct 20245100%
Nov 2024250%
Dec 20244100%
Jan 20250-
Feb 20254100%
Mar 20252100%
Apr 20251100%
May 20251100%
Jun 20252100%
Jul 2025250%
Aug 20250-
Sep 2025520%
Oct 2025585.7%
Nov 20250-
Dec 2025463.6%
Jan 2026460%
Feb 20262100%
Mar 2026333.3%
Apr 20261100%
May 20260-
Jun 2026666.7%
Jul 2026460%
Aug 20260-
Sep 20260-
Oct 20260-
Nov 20260-

Busiest month: 8 declared in September 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; a dashed stretch of the line joins the months either side.

Who Sérgio Gonçalves meets most

Counterparts are merged by resolved Transparency Register identity where possible. An entry counts as register-linked above only when the MEP declaration itself carries a Register link.

Where the meetings cluster

Both lists count this term. Sector pages count the full 2016–2026 record, and committee pages show each member's current-term total across all subjects, so their figures for this member can be higher.

Most-met sectors this term

Transport & automotive (20), Business federations & chambers (7), Consumer & retail (6)

Meetings by committee or delegation this term

Transport and Tourism (45), Regional Development (15), Fisheries (4), Delegation for relations with South Africa (1), Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
14 Jul 2026Conferência de Regiões Periféricas e Marítimas; Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment)⁠↗RapporteurPorts Strategy
14 Jul 2026Cruise Lines International Association⁠↗RapporteurPort Strategy
9 Jul 2026Associação Nacional de Empresas de Bebidas EspirituosasMemberHealth
8 Jul 2026Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves⁠↗MemberAnimal welfare
25 Jun 2026Conference of Peripheral Maritime RegionsMemberFuture Outermost Regions Strategy
25 Jun 2026Hub Azul PortugalMemberEU policy for Oceans
24 Jun 2026Royal Caribbean Group⁠↗RapporteurPort Strategy
11 Jun 2026Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies⁠↗MemberPassenger Package
10 Jun 2026Novartis International AG⁠↗MemberHealth
2 Jun 2026CIP - Confederação Empresarial de Portugal⁠↗MemberBlue economy and ETS review
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DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
21 Apr 2026EUPPORTUNITY (QB, Lda.)⁠↗MemberEU Competetiveness
24 Mar 2026Alianza Europea Corredores.euMemberCEF
24 Mar 2026Associação Comercial e Industrial da Funchal - Câmara Comércio e Indústria da MadeiraMemberEU Competetiveness
10 Mar 2026European Sea Ports Organisation⁠↗MemberPort Strategy
25 Feb 2026OPUS GROUP AB⁠↗Shadow rapporteurRoadworthiness Package
5 Feb 2026CIP - Confederação Empresarial de Portugal⁠↗MemberCohesion Policy and the next MFF
16 Jan 2026WWF European Policy Programme⁠↗MemberFuture of LIFE programme
15 Jan 2026Eurocities⁠↗; Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment)⁠↗Rapporteur for opinionEuropean Competitiveness Fund
14 Jan 2026Flanders Environment AgencyShadow rapporteurRoadworthiness Package
13 Jan 2026INTERTANKOMemberGNSS interference in maritime transport
11 Dec 2025Mobilians; DEKRA e.V.⁠↗; Acea S.p.A.; Association for Emissions Control and Climate; TÜV-Verband e. V.⁠↗Shadow rapporteurRoadworthiness Package
10 Dec 2025European Transport Workers' Federation⁠↗Shadow rapporteurRoadworthiness Package
4 Dec 2025POLIS Platform for Electromobility UNIFE; ChargeUp Europe⁠↗; European Transport Workers' Federation⁠↗; UITP - International Association of Public Transport⁠↗Rapporteur for opinionEuropean Competitiveness Fund
3 Dec 2025European Transport Safety Council⁠↗Shadow rapporteurRoadworthiness Package
16 Oct 2025Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme; OPUS GROUP AB⁠↗; Car-Pass asbl⁠↗Shadow rapporteurRoadworthiness Package
15 Oct 2025EUPPORTUNITY (QB, Lda.)⁠↗MemberTransport in the Madeira Islands
15 Oct 2025Transportes Aéreos Portugueses, S.A.⁠↗MemberPassenger Rights
3 Oct 2025BUSINESSEUROPE⁠↗MemberActivity report of the Mediterranean federation
3 Oct 2025BUSINESSEUROPE⁠↗MemberMFF Proposal
25 Sep 2025Fair Trade Advocacy Office (FTAO)MemberSouth Africa

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 6,412 roll-call votes while Sérgio Gonçalves held the seat, 606 of them the final vote on a text. A member with no vote recorded may have been on parliamentary business, ill, on leave, or present without voting - the published record does not distinguish these and gives no reason. Votes taken by show of hands or by secret ballot are not recorded by name and are absent here.

97%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 6,412 held while seated
591
final texts voted on
of 606
99%
voted with the S&D majority
on 589 final texts
6
differed from S&D
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 606 final votes held while seated.

Sérgio Gonçalves606 final votes
88%9%
For 531Against 53Abstained 7No vote recorded 15

With and against the group

On the 589 final texts where more than half of S&D members casting a vote went one way, and Sérgio Gonçalves also voted. Groups are not bound to vote together: a Member's mandate is personal and exercised freely, so neither figure is a measure of performance.

Voted with the S&D majority58399%
Voted differently61%

Final texts where Sérgio Gonçalves differed from the S&D majority

DateTextTheir voteS&D majority
17 June 2026Council directive on the structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) A10-0161/2026 · Tomáš Kubín · Commission proposal to the CouncilAbstainedAgainst
17 June 2026Council directive amending Directive (EU) 2020/262 as regards the general arrangements for excise duty in respect of tobacco and tobacco related products A10-0160/2026 · Tomáš Kubín · Commission proposal to the CouncilAbstainedAgainst
9 July 2025Motion for a resolution on the Commission delegated regulation of 10 June 2025 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 to add Algeria, Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Monaco, Namibia, Nepal and Venezuela to the list of high-risk third countries which have provided a written high-level political commitment to address the identified deficiencies and have developed an action plan with the FATF, and to remove Barbados, Gibraltar, Jamaica, Panama, the Philippines, Senegal, Uganda and the United Arab Emirates from that list B10-0315/2025 · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
27 November 2024Motion for a resolution on election of the Commission B10-0196/2024 · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
19 September 2024RC-B10-0023/2024 - Joint motion for a resolution (subject not given in the vote record) RC-B10-0023/2024 · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
19 September 2024RC-B10-0022/2024 - Joint motion for a resolution (subject not given in the vote record) RC-B10-0022/2024 · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedAgainst

Unlinked but matchable

9 counterpart entries in Sérgio Gonçalves's declarations appear to match an EU Transparency Register entry without being linked in the declaration:

These are the 3 most frequent matches, covering 3 of the 9 entries; the other 6 are not listed.

Matching is automated and can be wrong - see how matching works. Linking the register entry is the fix, and it is the MEP office's to make.