Complex sentence: In 1876, he was elected as a Democrat to his old seat, garnering 1,194 votes, against 921 for Republican Christian Widule (the incumbent, Fagg, was not a candidate for re-election).
Split into simpler sentences: In 1876, he was elected as a Democrat to his old seat, garnering 1,194 votes, against 921 for Republican Chr. Wedule (the incumbent, Fagg, was not a candidate for re-election).