Sumly Chan Yuen-sum (born 23 March 1958 in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

) is a

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and

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

in Hong Kong, a member of the Civic Party, the chairman and the member of

Tsuen Wan District Council The Tsuen Wan District Council () is the district council of Hong Kong, district council for the Tsuen Wan District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Tsuen Wan District Council currently consists of 21 members, of which the distric ...

( 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.

Political Life

Democratic Party

In 2003, Chan claimed the name of "" 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 The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the grou ...

of the Democratic Party to participate in the

2004 Hong Kong legislative election The 2004 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 12 September 2004 for members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo). The election returned 30 members from directly elected geographical constituency, geographical constituenci ...

, 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 Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung (; born 23 February 1957 in Macau) is a Hong Kong politician, the vice-chairman of the Labour Party, and a former member of the Legislative Council. Career Cheung obtained his undergraduate degree in social work fro ...

and Chan represented Civic Party to participate in the

2008 Hong Kong legislative election The 2008 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 7 September 2008 for the 4th Legislative Council since the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. There were 60 seats in the 4th Legislative Council, with 30 memb ...

, but both Cheung and he lost.
In 2016, he was nominated by Civic Party to run for the

District Council (Second) The District Council (Second) functional constituency () was a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong which was created in the 2012 constitutional reform package. It was the largest functional constituen ...

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."公民薇博, 琛哥的故事"
''AM730'', 2016-9-15

External links

* ttp://www.dphk.org/2003/councilor/district2.asp?iId=230 Sumly Chan's info in Hong Kong Democratic Party
To Sumly Chan disaffection (Chinese)
1958 births Members of the Regional Council of Hong Kong District councillors of Tsuen Wan District Hong Kong social workers Living people Civic Party politicians Democratic Party (Hong Kong) politicians Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2017–2021 {{HongKong-politician-stub