Amelia Womack
Amelia Helen Womack (born 12 January 1985) is a British Green Party of England and Wales politician. She served as the party's Deputy Leader from 2014 to 2022. She is a co-chair of the People's Assembly Against Austerity and co-founded Another Europe Is Possible.[1]
Amelia Womack | |
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Womack in May 2017 | |
| Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales | |
| In office 1 September 2014 – 7 September 2022 Serving with Shahrar Ali (2014–2016) | |
| Leader | Natalie Bennett Caroline Lucas Jonathan Bartley Siân Berry Adrian Ramsay Carla Denyer |
| Preceded by | Will Duckworth |
| Succeeded by | Zack Polanski |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 January 1985 Newport, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Green Party of England and Wales |
| Alma mater | University of Liverpool (BSc) Imperial College London (MSc) |
She served as Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales alongside Shahrar Ali from 2014 to 2016. She was re-elected in September 2016, once again in September 2018 and then again in September 2020. Womack stood as her party's lead candidate in the South Wales East region in the 2021 Senedd election; she was not elected.[2] Womack also 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.
Education edit
Womack was born in Newport in Monmouthshire, Wales.[3] She attended Bassaleg School, a state comprehensive school in the suburb of Bassaleg, from 1996 to 2003.[4] She studied a BSc in Environmental Biology[4] at Liverpool University,[5] and went on to complete an MSc in environmental technology at Imperial College London in 2009, with a thesis entitled Who's afraid of environmental law? How the law of Ecocide can secure our environment for business resilience.[6]
Political career edit
Womack joined the Green Party around 2000.[7] She stood as a Green candidate for Herne Hill ward on Lambeth Council, in the 2014 United Kingdom local elections,[8] and for London in the 2014 European Parliament election, though she won neither seat.[9]
She 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.[10] Having been elected at the age of 29, Womack is the youngest deputy leader of any political party in the UK.[11]
She stood in the Camberwell and Peckham constituency in the 2015 general election,[12] finishing third with just over 10% of the vote.
In September 2015, Womack announced her intention to stand for the Wales Green Party in the 2016 National Assembly for Wales election. The Welsh Green Party announced in late October that she had been selected as the lead candidate for the regional South Wales Central (proportional representation) list as well as for the Cardiff Central constituency.[13]
Womack's re-election as Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales was announced at the party conference in early September 2016. She served a second two-year term.[14]
Through her work as an End Ecocide Campaigner, she has worked with Vivienne Westwood to promote the change in environmental law and attempt to secure the one million votes required for a European Citizens' Initiative.[15]
In August 2016, she criticised Byron Hamburgers after they worked with the Home Office to call their London workers to a fake Health and Safety briefing, whereat immigration officials present at the venue arrested several employees, deporting 35 for immigration offences. Womack was quoted as saying "It’s about the family and friends of people who are left behind as well. You don’t need to be pro-migration to realise that employing people, having them pay tax and contribute to the company for years and then turn them over to authorities without any responsibility for the chaos caused is the wrong thing to do".[16]
In March 2017, 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". In her submission she said: "This headline and the further derogatory comments inside the paper would not have even been considered, let alone published, if the two politicians in question had been men".[17]
Womack was again re-elected Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales in September 2018.[18] She is currently serving a two-year term.
In January 2019 she apologised for tweeting a picture accused of being antisemitic.[19]
In February 2019, it was announced that Womack would be the Wales Green Party candidate in the 2019 Newport West by-election,[20] a position she had nominally been selected for in November 2018.[21] The by-election was held on 4 April 2019 and Womack finished in sixth place in a field of 11 candidates, with 924 votes (3.9% of the total votes cast).[22]
In August 2019, Womack was again nominated by the Wales Green Party as the candidate for Newport West in a prospective snap general election.[23] Womack stood in the 2019 general election. She again came in sixth place, but this time out of a field of six candidates.[24] She achieved a smaller share of the vote compared to the by-election, receiving 2.1% of the total votes cast.
In June 2020, Womack announced her intention to stand again as deputy leader.[25] On 9 September 2020, it was announced that she had been re-elected by party members for a fourth term.[26]
Womack stood as her party's lead candidate in the South Wales East region in the 2021 Senedd election.[2]
In August 2021, Womack announced her candidacy on a joint ticket with Tamsin Omond for the 2021 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election.[27] Their joint leadership ticket lost the leadership election to the joint ticket of Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer, coming in second place out of five candidates.[28]
In March 2022, Womack announced that she would not be standing in the 2022 Green Party of England and Wales deputy leadership election.[29]
Electoral history edit
2021 Senedd election edit
| 2021 Senedd election: South Wales East | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ± | |
| Labour | Helen Cunningham, Peter Jones, Mary Brocklesby, Majid Rahman | 85,988 | 41.4 | 3.1 | |
| Conservative | Laura Anne Jones, Natasha Asghar, Matthew Evans, Nick Evans, Gavin Chambers, Edward Dawson, Donna Gavin, Gareth Hughes | 52,323 | 25.2 | 8.0 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Delyth Jewell, Peredur Owen Griffiths, Lindsay Whittle, Rhys Mills, Jonathan lark, Ian Gwynne, Daniel Llewelyn | 30,530 | 14.7 | 0.6 | |
| Abolish | Mark Reckless, Richard Taylor, Stephen Jones, Michael Ford, Robert Steed, Hugh Hughes | 9,995 | 4.8 | 0.7 | |
| Green | Amelia Womack, Ian Chandler, Lauren James, Stephen Priestnall | 9,950 | 4.8 | 2.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jo Watkins, Veronica German, Oliver Townsend, Jeremy Becker | 7,045 | 3.4 | 0.1 | |
| UKIP | Neil Hamilton, Benjamin Walker, Thomas Harrison, Robert James | 4,101 | 2.0 | 15.8 | |
| Reform UK | James Wells, Kirsty Walmsley, David Rowlands, Colin Jones, Robert Beavis | 2,756 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |
| Gwlad | Calen Jones, Laurence Williams, Ryan Williams, Terry Beverton | 1,841 | 0.9 | 0.9 | |
| No More Lockdowns | Gruff Meredith, Mattie Ginsburg | 1,496 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |
| Propel | Kieran Gething, Anthony Nash, Celia Jones, Kristopher Ashley | 924 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
| Communist | Robert Griffiths, Bob Davenport, Glenn Eynon, Irene Green | 606 | 0.3 | 0.0 | |
| TUSC | Mariam Kamish, Cammilla Mngaza, Melanie Benedict, Dave Reid | 362 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
2019 general election edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Ruth Jones | 18,977 | 43.7 | −8.6 | |
| Conservative | Matthew Evans | 18,075 | 41.6 | +2.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ryan Jones | 2,565 | 5.9 | +3.7 | |
| Brexit Party | Cameron Edwards | 1,727 | 4.0 | N/A | |
| Plaid Cymru | Jonathan Clark | 1,187 | 2.7 | +0.3 | |
| Green | Amelia Womack | 902 | 2.1 | +0.9 | |
| Majority | 902 | 2.1 | −10.9 | ||
| Turnout | 43,433 | 65.2 | −2.3 | ||
| Registered electors | 66,657 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | −5.5 | |||
2019 by-election edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Ruth Jones | 9,308 | 39.6 | −12.7 | |
| Conservative | Matthew Evans | 7,357 | 31.3 | −8.0 | |
| UKIP | Neil Hamilton | 2,023 | 8.6 | +6.1 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Jonathan Clarke | 1,185 | 5.0 | +2.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ryan Jones | 1,088 | 4.6 | +2.4 | |
| Green | Amelia Womack | 924 | 3.9 | +2.8 | |
| Renew | June Davies | 879 | 3.7 | N/A | |
| Abolish | Richard Suchorzewski | 205 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| SDP | Ian McLean | 202 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Democrats and Veterans | Philip Taylor | 185 | 0.8 | N/A | |
| For Britain | Hugh Nicklin | 159 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Majority | 1,951 | 8.3 | -4.7 | ||
| Turnout | 23,515 | 37.1 | -30.5 | ||
| Registered electors | 63,623 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | –2.4 | |||
2016 Welsh Assembly election edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Jenny Rathbone | 10,016 | 38.4 | +0.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Eluned Parrott | 9,199 | 35.3 | −2.4 | |
| Conservative | Joel Williams | 2,317 | 8.9 | −6.2 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Glyn Wise | 1,951 | 7.5 | +0.3 | |
| UKIP | Mohammed Islam | 1,223 | 4.7 | +4.7 | |
| Green | Amelia Womack | 1,150 | 4.4 | +4.4 | |
| Independent | Jane Croad | 212 | 0.8 | +0.8 | |
| Majority | 817 | 3.1 | +2.9 | ||
| Turnout | 26,068 | 45.6 | +7.6 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +1.7 | |||
2015 general election edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Harriet Harman | 32,614 | 63.3 | +4.1 | |
| Conservative | Naomi Newstead | 6,790 | 13.2 | +0.1 | |
| Green | Amelia Womack | 5,187 | 10.1 | +7.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Yahaya Kiyingi | 2,580 | 5.0 | −17.4 | |
| UKIP | David Kurten | 2,413 | 4.7 | N/A | |
| All People's Party | Prem Goyal | 829 | 1.6 | N/A | |
| NHA | Rebecca Fox | 466 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| TUSC | Nick Wrack | 292 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| CISTA | Alex Robertson | 197 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Workers Revolutionary | Joshua Ogunleye | 107 | 0.2 | −0.3 | |
| Whig | Felicity Anscomb | 86 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 25,824 | 50.1 | +11.3 | ||
| Turnout | 51,561 | 62.3 | +3.0 | ||
| Registered electors | 82,746 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | +2.0 | |||
2014 European elections edit
| 2014 European election: London | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ± | |
| Labour | Claude Moraes, Mary Honeyball, Lucy Anderson, Seb Dance, Ivana Bartoletti, Kamaljeet Jandu, Sanchia Alasia, Andrea Biondi | 806,959 (201,739.75) | 36.67 | +15.4 | |
| Conservative | Syed Kamall, Charles Tannock, Marina Yannakoudakis, Caroline Attfield, Lynne Hack, Sheila Lawlor, Glyn Chambers, Annesley Abercorn | 495,639 (247,819.5) | 22.52 | −4.8 | |
| UKIP | Gerard Batten, Paul Oakley, Elizabeth Jones, Lawrence Webb, Alastair McFarlane, Andrew McNeilis, Anthony Brown, Peter Whittle | 371,133 | 16.87 | +6.1 | |
| Green | Jean Lambert, Caroline Allen, Haroon Saad, Shahrar Ali, Danny Bates, Tracey Hague, Violeta Vajda, Amelia Womack | 196,419 | 8.93 | −2.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Sarah Ludford, Jonathan Fryer, Richard Davis, Anuja Prashar, Rosina Robson, Turhan Ozen, Simon James, Matt McLaren | 148,013 | 6.73 | −7.0 | |
| 4 Freedoms Party | Dirk Hazell, NoelleAnne O'Sullivan, Geoff Gibas, Aline Doussin, Andrew Bell, Deborah Phillips, Royston Flude, Brendan Donnelly | 28,014 | 1.27 | N/A | |
| An Independence from Europe | Patrick Burns, Marlene Daniel, Gareth Griffiths, Munpreet Bhathal, Sharon Greenfield, Eddie Yeoman, Fred Atkins, Jean Atkins | 26,675 | 1.21 | N/A | |
| CPA | Sid Cordle, Yemi Awolola, Ashley Dickenson, Sharmilla Swarma, Laurence Williams, Ethel Odiete, Kevin Nicholls, Steven Hammond | 23,702 | 1.08 | −1.9 | |
| NHA | Louise Irvine, Chidi Ejimofo, Marcus Chown, Kathryn Anderson, Rufus Hound, Jessica Ormerod, Andrew Sharp, Alex Ashman | 23,253 | 1.06 | N/A | |
| Animal Welfare | Vanessa Hudson, Alexander Bourke, Kirsteen Williamson-Guinn, Andrew Knight, Dimple Patel, Meg Mathews, Guy Dessoy, Ranjan Joshi | 21,092 | 0.96 | N/A | |
| BNP | Stephen Squire, Donna Treanor, Paul Sturdy, John Clarke, David Furness, Cliff le May, Ray Underwood, Kevin Lazell | 19,246 | 0.87 | −4.1 | |
| Europeans Party | Tommy Tomescu, Andrzej Rygielski, Vanessa Del Carmen Guerrero Rodriguez, Robin Ashenden, Emil Rusanov, Georgios Papagrigorakis | 10,712 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| English Democrat | Jenny Knight, Matthew Roberts, Maggi Young, Graham Clipperton, Gary Butler, Nick Capp, Louise Dutton, Natalie Smith | 10,142 | 0.5 | −0.9 | |
| Communities United | Kamran Malik, Humera Kamran, Cydatty Bogie, Mary Coleman Daniels, Idris Aden Ali, Reuben Edokpayi, Sunita Kaur Singh, Joanne Flanders | 6,951 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| National Liberal | Graham Williamson, Jagdeesh Singh, Sockalingham Yogalingam, Doris Jones, Upkar Singh Rai, Yuseef Anwar, Araz Yurdseven, Bernard Dube | 6,736 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| NO2EU | Edward Dempsey, Alexander Gordon, April Ashley, Annie Ngemi, Mary Davis, Paula Mitchell, Natasha Horau, Michael Clarty | 3,804 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Harmony Party | David Vincent | 1,985 | 0.1 | −0.84 | |
| Turnout | 2,200,475 | N/A | N/A | ||
2014 Lambeth London Borough Council election edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Michelle Agdomar | 2,420 | 49.5 | ||
| Labour | Jim Dickson * | 2,373 | |||
| Labour | Jack Holborn | 2,198 | |||
| Green | Amelia Womack | 1,357 | 27.8 | ||
| Green | Nicholas Edwards | 1,269 | |||
| Green | Luke Hildyard | 1,103 | |||
| Conservative | Claire Baker | 470 | 9.6 | ||
| Conservative | Simon Hooberman | 387 | |||
| Conservative | Heidi Nicholson | 381 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Jennifer Keen | 351 | 7.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Price | 241 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Lawrence Price | 187 | |||
| UKIP | Steven Stanbury | 168 | 3.4 | ||
| TUSC | Louise Scott | 121 | 2.5 | ||
| Total votes | |||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Womack, Amelia; Omond, Tamsin (20 August 2021). "For a Green Party that wins: Amelia Womack and Tamsin Omond". Green World. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
- ^ a b . Wales Green Party. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Powell, Nick (3 September 2015). "Green deputy leader wants to switch to Welsh politics". ITV News. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Amelia Helen Womack". LinkedIn. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "Deputy Leader of the Green Party to visit Liverpool on Easter Monday". Liverpool Green Party. 3 April 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- ^ "Imperial College London Library – find books, articles and more". exlibrisgroup.com.
- ^ . Amelia Womack – Green Party. Archived from the original on 19 July 2014.
- ^ "Election results for Herne Hill". lambeth.gov.uk.
- ^ "Vote 2006: European election candidates for London". BBC News.
- ^ "Amelia Womack's maiden speech as Green Party Deputy Leader (Full Text)". Green Party. 7 September 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- ^ "Amelia Womack". HuffPost. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "UK Polling Report". ukpollingreport.co.uk.
- ^ "Record Number of Female Candidates Top Green Party Regional Lists for the Assembly Elections". Wales Green Party. 26 October 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- ^ "Green Party announces Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley as co-leaders". ITV News. 2 September 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ^ Vivienne Westwood wants you to End Ecocide. YouTube. 16 January 2014.
- ^ "Byron protest: 'chef deported without being able to see his pregnant wife'". London Evening Standard. 2 August 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "Daily Mail formally reported to press regulator over 'Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon's legs' front page". The Independent. 28 March 2017. from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ Walker, Peter (4 September 2018). "Jonathan Bartley and Siân Berry win Green party leadership race". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
The parallel vote for deputy leader saw the incumbent, Amelia Womack, voted in again.
- ^ Sugarman, Daniel (25 January 2019). "Green Party deputy leader Amelia Womack apologises after tweeting 'antisemitic' picture". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
- ^ Womack, Amelia (27 February 2019). "A Green vision for Newport West". Green World. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ "Green deputy leader selected as Newport West candidate | The Green Party". www.greenparty.org.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ "Newport West by-election: Labour holds on to seat". BBC News. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
- ^ Womack, Amelia [@Amelia_Womack] (10 August 2019). "I am pleased to announce that I have been reselected as the candidate for Newport West in preparation for a snap general election" (Tweet). Retrieved 9 August 2020 – via Twitter.
- ^ a b "Newport West". BBC News. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
- ^ Jarvis, Chris (17 June 2020). "Amelia Womack seeks fourth term as Green Party deputy leader". Bright Green. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
- ^ Walker, Peter (9 September 2020). "Green party re-elects co-leaders Siân Berry and Jonathan Bartley". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
The party's deputy leader, Amelia Womack, was re-elected for a fourth term.
- ^ Harvey, Fiona (12 August 2021). "Green party to offer 'young, intersectional feminist leadership'". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
- ^ Jarvis, Chris (1 October 2021). "BREAKING: Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay elected as Green Party co-leaders". Bright Green. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ Jarvis, Chris (5 March 2022). "Amelia Womack won't stand for re-election as Green Party deputy leader". Left Foot Forward. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
- ^ "General Election 2019" (PDF). Newport City Council. Newport City Council. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
- ^ "Newport West By-election results | Newport City Council". www.newport.gov.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- ^ "Cardiff Central". BBC News Online. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
- ^ . Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
External links edit
- Profile page on the Green Party of England and Wales official website
- Amelia Womack on Twitter