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52 lakh voters to exercise their franchise in second phase today

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About half-a-dozen polling booths in the region will have re-poll

Coimbatore: More than 52 lakh voters will exercise their franchise on Sunday to elect their representatives to the local bodies, including 17 municipalities in the western region.

Major entities

While the polling for all the local bodies in the Nilgiris district was completed on Friday itself, in six other districts of this region -- Coimbatore, Erode, Salem, Namakkal, Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri -- the second phase will take place on Sunday.

As the polls for Coimbatore and Salem Municipal Corporations were conducted on Friday, only municipalities like Tirupur and Udumalpet (Coimbatore district ), Erode, Gobichettipalayam and Bhavani (Erode district), Mettur and Idappadi ( Salem district), Krishnagiri (Krishnagiri district) and Namakkal (Namakkal district) are the major entities going to the polls in the second phase in this region.

In addition, 53 panchayat unions and 98 town panchayats will also go to polls.

Besides, about half-a-dozen polling booths in the region will have re-poll.

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