Bhubaneswar, May 25: Voting has begun for six Lok Sabha and 42 Assembly constituencies in the third phase of polls in Odisha on Saturday.

The six Lok Sabha constituencies are Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Sambalpur, Keonjhar and Dhenkanal and 42 Assembly constituencies.

94 lakh 48 thousand voters are going to participate in the election, comprising 48.3% male and 45.18% female. Youth percentage will be confined to 21%.

Polling begun at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm

Tight security measures have been taken into consideration in view of the rise of poll violence in the past two election phases . A total of 121 units of CAPF will be guarding 10,551 polling booths and around 1500 polling booths will be monitored by only Women troops. As many as 70,000 polling staff will be deployed for the election management.

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