The phrase "took over power" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used when someone gains control of a government, organization, or other group. For example: "When the military coup was successful, they took over power and established a new regime."
Blackouts have become more common since it took over power generation in 2010.
There the opposition forced the government to fall, took over power, and promptly implemented policies very similar to what the previous government was going to do anyway.
The larger Hutu population took over power when Belgium granted the country independence in 1962, and for decades the previously dominated Tutsis were semi-officially demonised.
The British government took over Power Jets Ltd. in 1944, by which time Britain's Gloster Meteor jet aircraft were in service with the RAF, intercepting German V-1 rockets.
The aim was to relieve both the international pressure (a crippling economic boycott) and the increasing inter-factional violence that have plagued the Palestinian Authority (PA) since Hamas took over power from Fatah in March.
Despite its newness, COPE is regarded as the first serious multiracial challenge to the ANC since the latter took over power from the last apartheid government 15 years ago.
In need of a new patron after the execution of Yekutiel in 1039 by those who had murdered his king and taken over power, Ibn Gabirol secured a position as a court poet with Samuel ha-Nagid, who, becoming the leading statesman of Granada, was in need of the poet's prestige.
The army did not take over power.
It's not far from that to taking over power.
As the German tabloid Bild put it pithily: "A bankrupt island takes over power in Europe".
"They are extremely keen to take over power and use it," he said.
