Liberal Party

Liberal Party is the name of dozens of political parties around the world. It usually designates a party that is ideologically liberal, meaning that they advocate human rights and civil liberties, and perhaps left wing meaning that they belive in the redistribution of wealth from rich to poor. There are however some Liberal Parties which are actually more conservative in nature than their opponents, or whose views are right wing, libertarian, or difficult to categorise.

For more information on liberal parties, see liberal parties.

Present-day parties

• Åland — Liberals for Åland
• Andorra — Liberal Party of Andorra
• Aruba — Aruban Liberal Organization
• Australia — Liberal Party of Australia
• Austria — Liberal Forum
• Brazil — Liberal Front Party and Liberal Party
• Canada — Liberal Party of Canada and its affiliated provincial parties, including the Parti libéral du Québec
• Colombia — Colombian Liberal Party
• Croatia — Liberal Party
• Cuba — Cuban Liberal Union
• Egypt — Liberal Party
• Finland — Liberals (Finland)
• Gibraltar — Liberal Party of Gibraltar
• Haiti — Liberal Party
• Honduras — Liberal Party of Honduras
• Hong Kong — Liberal Party
• Iceland — Liberal Party (Frjálslyndi Flokkurinn)
• Japan — Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
• Kosovo — Liberal Party of Kosovo
• Lithuania — Liberal and Centre Union
• Macedonia — Liberal Party of Macedonia
• Morocco — Moroccan Liberal Party
• Nicaragua — Liberal Constitutional Party
• Philippines — Liberal Party
• Rwanda — Liberal Party
• Serbia and Montenegro — Liberal Alliance of Montenegro and Liberals of Serbia
• Sri Lanka — Liberal Party of Sri Lanka
• Sweden — Liberal People's Party
• Switzerland — Liberal Party of Switzerland
• Ukraine — Liberal Party
• United States — Liberal Party of New York, Democratic Party
• United Kingdom — Liberal Party (not the same as the historic Liberal Party or the larger Liberal Democrats, see below)

Defunct parties of the name

• Argentina — Liberal Party
• Armenia — Liberal Party
• Australia — Commonwealth Liberal Party
• Belgium — Liberal Party , Brussels Liberal Party , Reformist Liberal Party now merged into Mouvement Réformateur (French-speaking)
• Bolivia — Liberal Party
• Chile — Liberal Party
• Finland — Liberal Party and Liberal People's Party
• Germany — Liberal Union
• Isle of Man — Manx Liberal Party
• Japan — Liberal Party
• Netherlands — Liberal State Party , Liberal Union
• New Zealand — Liberal Party, Liberal Party (1963) , Liberal Party (1992)
• South Africa — South African Liberal Party, outlawed by the Apartheid regime.
• Sweden — Liberal Party of Sweden
• United Kingdom — Liberal Party, merged into Liberal Democrats.
• Utah Territory — Liberal Party
• Rhodesia — Liberal Party of Rhodesia

In combination

Liberal is also used in combination with:

• Democratic in Liberal Democratic or Democratic Liberal Party
• National in National Liberal Party
• Progressive in Progressive Liberal Party
• Social in Social Liberal Party
• Radical in Radical Liberal Party
• Progressive in Progressive Liberal Party

See also

• Freedom Party
• Liberal International
• Radical Party
• List of political parties