Darren Power

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Mayor
Darren Power
Mayor of Logan City
In office
28 March 2020 –16 March 2024
SpouseLynne Power [1]
Children4 (including Lachlan) [1]
Military service
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Darren Ross Power is an Australian politician who served as the mayor of the City of Logan from 2020 to 2024. [2] Prior to his election as mayor, Power served as Logan City Councillor for Division 10 from 1997 to 2019, and as Advocate for the City of Logan from 2019 to 2020. [3]

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Logan City Council

After serving as the Councillor for Division 10 for 22 years, Power and all other councillors for Logan City were terminated by the Queensland Government in May 2019 and a temporary administrator was appointed. [4] The decision followed the Crime and Corruption Commission charging 8 of 12 sitting councillors with official corruption one week earlier. [5] Mr Power and 3 other councillors gave evidence to the Crime and Corruption Commission prior to charges being laid, and were subsequently given official advisory positions by the temporary administrator. [6]

Electoral history

Power was elected mayor of Logan on 28 March 2020, achieving 36.62% of the primary vote and placing first in a field of 8 candidates. [7]

Although elected to the mayoralty as an independent candidate, Power had previously been a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland, the National Party, [8] and the Australian Labor Party respectively.

While the incumbent councillor for Logan City Council's Division 10, Power stood as the National Party candidate for Springwood in the 2001 Queensland state election, as an independent candidate for the Division of Rankin in the 2004 Australian federal election, [9] and was the endorsed Liberal National candidate for Springwood at the 2009 Queensland state election, however resigned as a candidate to avoid having to resign his seat on council. [10]

In 2010, Power announced his resignation from the Liberal National Party, citing the party's treatment of Beaudesert state MP and former party member Aidan McLindon. [11] [12]

Personal life

He is the father of professional gamer Lachlan Power. [13]

2004 Australian federal election: Rankin
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Craig Emerson 34,47143.92−1.04
Liberal Wendy Creighton28,81936.72−4.05
Independent Darren Power5,1346.54+6.54
Family First Ross Wilson4,0365.14+5.14
Greens Julian Hinton2,4223.09+0.34
One Nation Margaret Hands1,6012.04−4.57
National Mike Boyd1,1871.51+1.51
Democrats Catherine Sporle6530.83−3.97
Citizens Electoral Council Robert Meyers1580.20+0.20
Total formal votes78,48192.81−0.82
Informal votes6,0787.19+0.82
Turnout 84,55992.89−1.06
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Craig Emerson 41,77453.23+0.81
Liberal Wendy Creighton36,70746.77−0.81
Labor hold Swing +0.81
2001 Queensland state election: Springwood
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Barbara Stone 11,19245.6+7.4
Independent Hetty Johnston5,14020.9+20.9
National Darren Power4,61318.8+8.4
Liberal Bob Ward3,59014.6−9.5
Total formal votes24,53597.5
Informal votes6242.5
Turnout 25,15992.7
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Barbara Stone 12,44260.4+10.7
National Darren Power8,16939.6+39.6
Labor gain from Liberal Swing +10.7

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