Complex sentence: Long led the party balloting for the second position in state government, but he lost the runoff to Verret, whose only previous elected experience had been as a member and president of the Iberia Parish School Board.
Split into simpler sentences: Long led the party balloting for the second position in state government, but he lost the runoff to Verret. His only previous elected experience had been as a member and president of the Iberia Parish School Board.