Voters will go to the polls in the first round of presidential elections on December 4

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The mass migration of millions of people into Europe is having a knock-on effect even in rural areas that don't appear to have been heavily impacted, according to reports.

Now it appears 45-year-old Norbert Hofer, of the populist Freedom Party, could well sweep the board in an uprising that is being mirrored around the world as the first run-off for the presidential elections gets set to take place on December 4.

And just as Donald Trump triumphed over left leaning Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in last week's US elections, Mr Hofer is being tipped for pole position in increasingly conservative Austria.