United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 5, 2002 in 36 states and two territories.
 The Republicans won eight seats previously held by the Democrats, as well the seat previously held by Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura, who was elected on the Reform Party ticket but had since renounced his party affiliation.
 The Democrats won 10 seats previously held by the Republicans, as well as the seat previously held by Maine governor Angus King, an independent.
 Overall, the Republicans suffered a net loss of one seat while the Democrats made a net gain of three.
 The Republicans managed to maintain their majority of state governorships, but it was reduced to a margin of only two seats.
 The elections were notable for the sheer number of state governorships that changed parties – 20 in total, constituting more than half of the seats up for election.
 The elections were also notable for the inroads that both major parties made in regions where their support had historically been low or waning.
Alice Cancel is the former Assembly member for the 65th District of the New York State Assembly.
 She is a Democrat.
 The district included the neighborhoods of the Lower East Side, East Village, Little Italy, Chinatown, SoHo, TriBeCa, the Financial District, Battery Park and Governor's Island in Manhattan.
 In 2016, Cancel was defeated in the Democratic primary for her seat by Yuh-Line Niou.
Hasan Raza Pasha is a prominent lawyer of chakwal who was elected as Chairman Executive of Punjab Bar Council.
 His father was also a prominent lawyer Previously he has been elected as Member Punjab Bar Council.
 Mr. Pasha was Justice of Lahore High Court.
Yuh-Line Niou () is a Taiwanese-American politician.
 She is a Democratic Party member of the New York State Assembly for the 65th district, the seat previously held by Sheldon Silver.
 This district which, is heavily Democratic and 40% Asian, includes Chinatown, the Financial District, Battery Park City, and the Lower East Side.
 Niou is the first Asian-American elected to the State Assembly for this district.
 Her name is pronounced "you-lean nee-oh" or "you lean new", according to various sources.
Sheldon "Shelly" Silver (born February 13, 1944) is a former lawyer and Democratic Party politician from New York City, who rose to become the powerful Speaker of the New York State Assembly in 1994 until his arrest on federal corruption charges in 2015.
 He was initially convicted, but his conviction was overturned.
Raymond B. "Vic" Vickers is an American historian, author, and lawyer.
 He was a Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate seat held by incumbent Ted Stevens of Alaska.
Thomas John Campbell (born August 14, 1952) is an American academic, educator and former politician.
 He is Professor of Law at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law, and a Professor of Economics at the George Argyros School of Business and Economics, at Chapman University, in Orange, California.
 He was Dean of Chapman University School of Law from 2011-16, a former five-term Republican United States Congressman from California's 12th and 15th districts, former member of the California State Senate, a former professor at Stanford Law School, former dean of the Haas School of Business, and former professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkeley.
 In 2000 he retired from his House seat to run for the U.S. Senate but lost decisively to incumbent Dianne Feinstein.
 He served as the Director of Finance for the State of California from 2004 to 2005.
 On June 8, 2010, he lost his third bid for the United States Senate, and second for the seat held by Democrat Barbara Boxer, losing the Republican nomination to Carly Fiorina.
Al Jacquet is a Netherlands Antilles-born American politician and former lawyer who currently serves as the representative for Florida House of Representatives District 88 as a member of the Democratic Party.
 He ran for the seat after longtime officeholder Bobby Powell left for the Florida State Senate.
 Jacquet, who previously served as a commissioner for Delray Beach and as a practicing attorney at law, ran for the seat unopposed in the general election, defeating Edwin Ferguson and Angie Gray in the Democratic primary.
 Jacquet lives in Lantana, Florida, and graduated from DePauw University and the St. Thomas University School of Law.
The 1982 United States Senate election in New Jersey was held on November 2, 1982.
 Democrat Frank Lautenberg won for the seat held by retiring incumbent Republican Senator Nicholas Brady.
 Lautenberg won the seat with a margin of 3.19% over U.S. Representative Millicent Fenwick.
Mark A. A. Warner (born 1964) is a Canadian international trade and competition (antitrust) lawyer previously with the Toronto firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin and with the Government of Ontario.

Question: which former lawyer previously held the seat held by Yuh-Line Niou
Answer: Sheldon Silver