Complex sentence: The original constituencies had been drawn at the empire's formation in 1871, when Germany was almost two-thirds rural and were never redrawn to reflect the dramatic growth of Germany's cities in the 1890s.
Split into simpler sentences: The original constituencies had been drawn at the empire's formation in 1871, when Germany was almost two-thirds rural. They were never redrawn to reflect the dramatic growth of Germany's cities in the 1890s.