http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/nyregion/assembly-primary-yuh-line-niou-sheldon-silver.html 2016-09-14 04:28:59 Yuh-Line Niou Defeats Sheldon Silver Ally in Primary for His Old Assembly Seat Ms. Niou won a six-way Democratic race, defeating Alice Cancel, whom Mr. Silver, the disgraced former speaker, helped install in a special election earlier this year. === Yuh-Line Niou won a six-way race on Tuesday for the Democratic nomination to inherit the State Assembly seat once held by Yet Mr. Silver, the longtime former speaker who is appealing his conviction, still had enough influence in the district during the special election for the seat in April to help The district Ms. Niou, who is virtually assured a spot in the Assembly in this solid-blue district, is a former chief of staff for Assemblyman Ron Kim of Flushing, Queens. They would be the only two Assembly members of Asian descent. With 90 percent of the precincts counted, Ms. Niou had 32 percent of the vote. The other candidates included Gigi Li, the chairwoman of the local community board, who earned 10 percent of the vote; Jenifer Rajkumar, a district leader, with 19 percent of the vote; Don Lee, a businessman, with 12 percent; and Paul Newell, a community activist, with 15 percent. Ms. Cancel finished with 12 percent. Mr. Silver was convicted in November of obtaining more than $4 million in illegal fees by using his office to benefit a prominent cancer researcher and two real estate developers. He was