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# Elections in Nicaragua
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/18723/
- Published: 2006-09-20T16:09:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:35:15.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

**By Jessica Reed**

Big changes in electoral forecasts are beginning to show in Nicaragua as the next presidential elections are set for November: just as the two top candidates [were said to be](http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/11400?ref=opendemocracy.net) liberal banker Eduardo Montealegre and populist [*sandinisto*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandinista?ref=opendemocracy.net) Daniel Ortega, economist [Edmundo Jarquin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmundo%5FJarqu%C3%ADn?ref=opendemocracy.net) has made spectacular progress in the polls. In the past month, 26% of voters have claimed their intention to vote for the ex-runner up for Vice President Edmundo Jarquin, who became the Sandinista Renewal Movement party's official presidential candidate following the sudden death of [Herty Lewites](../../../democracy-protest/nicaragua%5Flewites%5F3707.jsp) (openDemocracy article). His opponents lost respectively 17 and 16% of promises of vote. 

If the current trend keeps on growing, there's a good chance the final candidates will be Ortega and Jarquin, which defeats the forecasts planning on a return to polarisation that had been previously announced by the media.

*Picture: 'Sandinista youth', by* [*Benindc*](http://www.flickr.com/photos/benindc/205508982/?ref=opendemocracy.net) *on FlickR.*