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Cut local tree for poles, they say (9)

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electoral

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'poles they say' is the definition.
The definition and answer are not the same part of speech.

'cut local tree' is the wordplay.
'cut' is an anagram indicator.
'local'+'tree'='localtree'
'localtree' is an anagram of 'ELECTORAL'.

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for electoral that I've seen before include "of constituents" , "Relating to the voting system" , "concerning voters" , "concerned with votes" , "made up of voters" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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