Complex sentence: In the runoff election for mayor of Shreveport on December 6,2014, Tyler handily defeated a white Independent, lawyer Victoria Provenza (born 1960) She polled 34,208 votes (63.4 percent) to Provenza's 19,781 (36.6 percent).
Split into simpler sentences: In the runoff election for mayor of Shreveport on December 6,2014, Tyler handily defeated a white Independent, lawyer Victoria Provenza (born 1960). Tyler polled 34,208 votes (63.4 percent) to Provenza's 19,781 (36.6 percent).