London: The British government will not use the election result in Ecuador to renew efforts to evict Julian Assange from his Knightsbridge bolthole, Fairfax Media has learnt.

Instead it is relying on Sweden and Ecuador to persuade the Wikileaks editor to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has stayed under asylum for four and a half years.

Julian Assange on the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London last year. Credit:Getty Images

In a pre-election interview, presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso said he would "cordially ask senor Assange to leave within 30 days of assuming a mandate" because of the cost of keeping him there, apparently indefinitely.

Pending a recount, it appears Lasso's opponent Lenin Moreno won the poll. Moreno backed the Australian's continued asylum.