Nearly 17 million voters are going to the polls in Iraq to choose from more than 6-thousand candidates for provincial council seats. Due to political disputes among its multi-ethnic population, it’s the first elec-tion to be held in Kirkuk province since 2005.

Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Abdelwahed reports from the northern Iraqi city.

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