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 individual rights and civil liberties, and sometimes left wing, meaning that they are egalitarian and believe in the redistribution of wealth from rich to poor. However, there are also some Liberal Parties which subscribe to classical liberalism and therefore support a mostly unregulated free market, or who are actually more conservative in nature than their opponents, or whose views are right wing, libertarian, or difficult to categorise.
- Further information: liberal parties
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Present-day parties
Defunct parties of the name
| Nation | Party |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Croatia | Liberal Party |
| Finland | Liberal Party Liberal People's Party |
| Germany | Liberal Union |
| Greece | Liberal Party |
| Isle of Man | Manx Liberal Party |
| Israel | Liberal Party |
| Japan | Liberal Party |
| Netherlands | Liberal State Party Liberal Union Liberal Party |
| New Zealand | Liberal Party Liberal Party (1963) Liberal Party (1992) |
| Paraguay | Liberal Party |
| Puerto Rico | Liberal Party |
| Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) | Southern Rhodesia Liberal Party |
| Serbia | Liberal Party |
| South Africa | South African Liberal Party, outlawed by the Apartheid regime |
| Sweden | Liberal Party of Sweden |
| United Kingdom | Liberal Party, merged into Liberal Democrats |
| Uruguay | Liberal Party |
| United States | Liberal Party of New York |
| United States - Utah Territory | Liberal Party (Utah) |
In combination
The term Liberal is also used in combination with:
- Democratic
- Further information: Liberal Democratic Party
- National
- Further information: National Liberal Party
- People's
- Further information: Liberal People's Party
- Progressive
- Further information: Progressive Liberal Party
- Reform
- Further information: Liberal Reform Party
- Social
- Further information: Social Liberal Party
- Radical
- Further information: Radical Liberal Party
See also
Categories
Disambiguation | Lists of political parties by generic name
