Complex sentence: Former Quebec provincial cabinet minister Eric Kierans ran a solid campaign with minimal resources and developed a small following but never having been a federal cabinet minister and without a seat in the House of Commons he remained an outsider.
Split into simpler sentences: Former Quebec provincial cabinet minister Eric Kierans ran a solid campaign with minimal resources. He developed a small following, but never having been a federal cabinet minister and without a seat in the House of Commons he remained an outsider.