18 Facts About Amelia Womack

Amelia Helen Womack was born on 12 January 1985 and is a British Green Party of England and Wales politician.

Amelia Womack served as the party's Deputy Leader from 2014 to 2022.

Amelia Womack is a co-chair of the People's Assembly Against Austerity, and co-founded Another Europe Is Possible.

Amelia Womack served as Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales alongside Shahrar Ali from 2014 to 2016.

Amelia Womack was re-elected in September 2016, in September 2018 and then again in September 2020.

Amelia Womack stood on a joint ticket with Tamsin Omond in the 2021 Green Party leadership election, in which they finished in second place of five candidates vying for the party's leadership.

Amelia Womack attended Bassaleg School, a state comprehensive school in the suburb of Bassaleg, from 1996 to 2003.

Amelia Womack stood as a Green candidate for Herne Hill ward on Lambeth Council, in the 2014 United Kingdom local elections, and for London in the 2014 European Parliament election, though she won neither seat.

Amelia Womack was elected deputy leader of the Green Party in September 2014, delivering her first speech in the role at the party's conference on 6 September.

In September 2015, Amelia Womack announced her intention to stand for the Wales Green Party in the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election.

In March 2017, Amelia Womack reported the Daily Mail newspaper to the Independent Press Standards Organisation over a front page photo of Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon with the caption "Never mind Brexit, who won Legs-it".

Amelia Womack was again re-elected Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales in September 2018.

In February 2019, it was announced that Amelia Womack would be the Wales Green Party candidate in the 2019 Newport West by-election, a position she had nominally been selected for in November 2018.

The by-election was held on 4 April 2019 and Amelia Womack finished in sixth place in a field of 11 candidates, with 924 votes.

Amelia Womack again came in sixth place, but this time out of a field of six candidates.

In June 2020, Amelia Womack announced her intention to stand again as deputy leader.

Amelia Womack stood as her party's lead candidate in the South Wales East region in the 2021 Senedd election.

In March 2022, Amelia Womack announced that she would not be standing in the 2022 Green Party of England and Wales deputy leadership election.