| Honorific-Prefix: | Cr |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Office: | Mayor of Clarence |
| Term Start: | 27 October 2022[1] |
| Predecessor: | Doug Chipman |
| Office1: | Councillor of the City of Clarence |
| Term Start1: | October 2018 |
| Birth Name: | Brendan Blomeley |
| Party: | Liberal (since 1990/91) |
Brendan Blomeley is an Australian politician who has served as mayor of the City of Clarence in Tasmania since 2022. He is a former member of the Liberal Party.[2]
Before running for office, Blomeley was chief of staff to Tasmanian Liberal senator David Bushby, the Chief Government Whip in the Senate.
In 2017, he was convicted and fined $2000 for using a carriage service to harass his inlaws, Julia Edwards and Ted Edwards.[3] The conviction was set aside in 2018, but Blomeley was required to enter into an 18-month good behaviour bond on each of the two counts.[4]
Blomeley contested the 2018 Tasmanian local govermment elections as an Independent Liberal. He had 3.10% of the vote and was the last candidate elected after preference distribution.[5]
In 2022, he announced his candidacy for mayor of Clarence, leading the "Better Clarence" ticket.[6] He was successful in a close race, elected with 50.81% of the vote against Tony Mulder after preference distribution.[7]
Blomeley was passed over for Liberal Party Senate preselection in 2023 because he did not disclose he had been charged with breaching an apprehended violence order (AVO) in 2017.[8]
At the 2024 Tasmanian state election, he considered contesting the division of Franklin as an independent candidate, although ultimately chose not to.[2] His membership to the State Liberal Party of Tasmania automatically lapsed at this time.
Blomeley was within a kilometre of the Westfield shopping centre in Bondi Junction, Sydney, on 13 April 2024 when a man stabbed and killed multiple people but did not personally witness the event.[9]