Adding to intrigue, publication of two exit polls were withheld after private pollsters said they didn’t trust their own survey results.
Bolivians have long been accustomed to quick preliminary results in presidential elections.
“The great lesson we should never forget is that violence only generates violence, and with that, we all lose,” he said.
He shrugged aside a public vote that had set term limits, and competed in the October 2019 presidential vote, which he claimed to have narrowly won outright.
She dropped out at as a candidate for Sunday’s presidential election while trailing badly in polls.