The petitions reveal how the candidates have cobbled together networks of supporters for election-season grunt work, where each candidate's greatest support lies and where weak spots could surface.
Its support lay largely with the Ovimbundu and Chokwe ethnic groups in central and southern Angola.
The party's support lay primarily in the industrial cities of the east, however.
Newman insists that co-producing care with the people who need support lies at the heart of the new model.
And in turn it means that the left's best chance of gaining support lies in the FARC giving up their guns once and for all.
Behind his support lies the belief by a number of Labour MPs that Woolas was right to be strident on immigration.
"We commend and support lay initiatives to form circles of discernment to choose worthy candidates and even to run as candidates in order to bring the values of God's kingdom into the public discourse," the statement said.
She and her staff, meanwhile, are rapidly rethinking how to run an election campaign in the rural areas, where the base of her support lies, without holding the big rallies and processions that are the political tradition here.
Ms. Yellen told investigators that she balked at hiring Mr. Boone, a former district leader in predominantly black central Brooklyn, because she felt that her main support lay in other neighborhoods.
