Complex sentence: In the initial drafts of the Reform Bill, Maldon was to lose one of its two seats and although it was eventually spared this fate its population of 3,831 in 1831 left it very close to the borderline.
Split into simpler sentences: In the initial drafts of the Reform Bill, Maldon was to lose one of its two seats. It was eventually spared this fate, but its population of 3,831 in 1831 left it very close to the borderline.