1.   Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign!

2.   He resigned as Conservative party chairman.

3.   It is likely to be its party chairman Gennady Zyuganov, who now leads nationwide polls for president.

4.   Lord Tebbit, former Tory party chairman and right-hand man to Baroness Thatcher, is backing the plan.

5.   Party chairman Sir Norman Fowler is also said to be considering renting out part of the building in Westminster.

6.   Professional pollsters have displaced precinct party chairmen as the principal source of information about what the public is thinking.

7.   A delegate from Siberia proposed a resolution that he stand down as party chairman.

8.   They left in place the post of general secretary instead of introducing the office of party chairman, but created the new post of deputy general secretary.

9.   The party chairman is also head of state.