Politician accidentally wrong vote in Parliament:-)

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I am a Polish , I was reminded of a story from our Sejm ( the lower house is Polish Parliament ) , was used to vote on the liberalization of abortion , I'm against it. But i it not the point here. Polish law allows abortion only in three cases where the pregnancy is the result of rape , threats to the woman's life or severe service damage to the fetus. Members of the Left submitted a draft law authorizing abortion on a woman's request . The priests were outraged as well as right-wing politicians , but fortunately the bill did not pass , but public opinion in Poland almost made ​​a political lynching , on one right-wing parliamentarian who always promoted themselves as the defenders of traditional values ​​, but voted in favor of this bill, then on TV said that inadvertently pressed the wrong button on the computer voting machine. For which he apologized to his voters:-)

I wonder whether such stories and such mistakes occur in other national parliaments

I know an American member of the electoral college accidentally voted for the Vice-President elect to be President and the President as Vice once.

This has happened a few times in the US congress that I can remember too,

This happens in state legislatures, too. The way that voting works in the Minnesota House is that each legislator pushes a button to vote. The speaker of the house has a panel showing all of the votes, but it's not official until voting is closed. It's common for the minority party to have some of their members push the wrong button during that period to make it difficult for the speaker to know whether there are enough votes for passage. If the speaker decided to finalize the vote before they had time to change their votes back, they could be recorded as having voted against their own party.