Complex sentence: Due to the small population of the county, it was never a constituency in its own right: from 1708 to 1832 Kinross-shire and Clackmannanshire were alternating counties, a member being returned for one county at one parliament and for the other at the next.
Split into simpler sentences: Due to the small population of the county, it was never a constituency in its own right. From 1708 to 1832 Kinross-shire and Clackmannanshire were alternating counties, a member being returned for one county at one parliament and for the other at the next.