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
Incumbent
Assumed office 1991
Preceded by	New constituency
Constituency	Lei Muk Shue Estate East
In office 1985–1991
Preceded by	Ho Mun
Succeeded by	Office abolished
4th Chairman of the New Territories West Branch of Civic Party
In office 2011–2012
Preceded by	Yip Dak Lun
Succeeded by	So Yiu Kwan
Civic Party District Council (Second) Election Nominee
In office 2016
Preceded by	New title
Personal details
Born	Sumly Chan Yuen-sum (1958-03-23) March 23, 1958 (age 67) British Hong Kong
Political party	Democratic Party (2004-2007) Civic Party (2007-)
Occupation	District Councillor
Profession	Social Worker
Known for	Politician

Sumly Chan
Traditional Chinese	陳琬琛
Simplified Chinese	陈琬琛
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chén Wǎnchēn Yue: Cantonese Jyutping can4 jyun2 sam1

Political Life

Democratic Party

In 2003, Chan claimed the name of "Tsuen Wan Election Union [zh]" 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]