Voter turnout jumped to 34.7% by midday in Saxony-Anhalt’s state election as the far-right AfD seeks an unprecedented regional victory.

The nationalist party is poised to win more than 40 percent of the votes in the state.

Exit polls show it winning 44% of vote, but too early to tell if victory will pave way for country's first far-right state government since WWII, as all major parties have ruled…