Sumly Chan

Sumly Chan Yuen-sum (born 23 March 1958 in Hong Kong) is a social worker and politician in Hong Kong, a member of the Civic Party, the chairman and the member of Tsuen Wan District Council (Lei Muk Shue East). He has served as district councillor in Tsuen Wan since 1985 and is one of the Hong Kong district councillors with the longest years of service.

Sumly Chan
陳琬琛
Sumly Chan in District Council 2016
Tsuen Wan District Council
Assumed office
1991
Preceded byNew constituency
ConstituencyLei Muk Shue Estate East
In office
1985–1991
Preceded byHo Mun
Succeeded byOffice abolished
4th Chairman of the New Territories West Branch of Civic Party
In office
2011–2012
Preceded byYip Dak Lun
Succeeded bySo Yiu Kwan
Civic Party District Council (Second) Election Nominee
In office
2016
Preceded byNew title
Personal details
Born
Sumly Chan Yuen-sum

(1958-03-23) March 23, 1958
British Hong Kong
Political partyDemocratic Party (2004-2007) Civic Party (2007-)
OccupationDistrict Councillor
ProfessionSocial Worker
Known forPolitician
Sumly Chan
Traditional Chinese陳琬琛
Simplified Chinese陈琬琛

Political Life

Democratic Party

In 2003, Chan claimed the name of "Tsuen Wan Election Union" headed by Albert Chan to take part in the District Council election, and renewed the seat successfully. In 2004, he joined Hong Kong Democratic Party and partnered with Lee Wing-tat, the former chairman of the Democratic Party to participate in the 2004 Hong Kong legislative election, but failed to enter the Legislative Council. In September 2007, he quit Democratic Party and joined Civic Party.

Civic Party

In November 2007, he succeeded in keeping the seat of the district council. In 2008, Fernando Cheung and Chan represented Civic Party to participate in the 2008 Hong Kong legislative election, but both Cheung and he lost.
In 2016, he was nominated by Civic Party to run for the District Council (Second) constituency. He spent plenty of time in finding his 15 nominees (they must be a district councillor) which caused him to start his campaign later than others. As a result, he was constantly ranked either sixth or seventh in the rolling poll which caused him to suspend his campaign on 2 September 2016 in order to have at least three pan-democrats to take the District Council (Second) seat. Leung Yiu-chung, who was then elected in the District Council (Second) election was somehow actually helped by Sumly. Sumly was meant to have 16 nominees with him. However, one of them is duplicated with Leung. Therefore, Sumly decided to forfeit it in order to let Leung enter the race.[1]

  1. "公民薇博, 琛哥的故事". AM730, 2016-9-15 (in Chinese)
Preceded by
Ho Mun		 Tsuen Wan District Councilor (Tsuen Wan South)
1985－1991		 Office abolished
New constituency Tsuen Wan District Councilor (Lei Muk Shue East)
1991－		 Incumbent
Preceded by
Yip Dak Lun		 Chairman of the Civic Party New Territories West branch
2011－2012		 Succeeded by
So Yiu Kwan
New title Civic Party District Council (Second) Election Nominee
2016		 Incumbent


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