Complex sentence: Knabe lost to La Mirada Mayor Wayne R. Grisham, but carried his home area, and in 1980 was elected to the Cerritos City Council on the basis of growth issues.
Split into simpler sentences: Knabe lost to La Mirada Mayor Wayne R. Grisham, but carried his home area. In 1980, he was elected to the Cerritos City Council on the basis of growth issues.