Liberal Democratic Party

Liberal Democratic Party and Liberal Democrats have been names for dozens of political parties around the world that usually have the ideology of liberal democracy.

Current parties with that name include:

  • Afghanistan — Liberal Democratic Party of Afghanistan
  • Angola — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Australia — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Bangladesh — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Belarus — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Belgium — Flemish Liberals and Democrats
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Croatia — Croatian People's Party - Liberal Democrats
  • Cuba — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Czech Republic — LIDEM – Liberal Democrats
  • El Salvador — Liberal Democratic Party
  • European Union — European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party
  • France — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Germany — Free Democratic Party (Germany), sometimes mistranslated as Liberal Democratic Party
  • Italy — Liberal Democrats; Pact of Liberal Democrats
  • Japan — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Macedonia — Liberal Democratic Party (Republic of Macedonia)
  • Malaysia — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Moldova — Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova; Liberal Democratic Party of Pridnestrovie
  • Mozambique — Liberal Democratic Party of Mozambique
  • Netherlands — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Portugal — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Republic of Macedonia — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Russia — Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
  • Serbia — Liberal Democratic Party (Serbia 1989), Liberal Democratic Party (Serbia 2005)
  • Slovenia — Liberal Democracy of Slovenia
  • Sweden — Liberal Democrats (Gothenburg); Liberal Democrats—Bard; Liberal Democrats—Dougherty (all minor parties)
  • Sudan — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Turkey — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Ukraine — Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine
  • United Kingdom — Liberal Democrats
  • Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party

Defunct parties of the name include:

  • Chile — Liberal Democratic Party
  • East Germany — Liberal Democratic Party of Germany
  • France — Liberal Democracy
  • Hong Kong — Liberal Democratic Federation
  • Kenya — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Lithuania — Liberal Democratic Party
  • Romania — Liberal Democratic Party
  • South Korea — United Liberal Democrats
  • Turkey — Liberal Democrat Party (Turkey)

Famous quotes containing the words democratic party, liberal, democratic and/or party:

    “No one can doubt the purpose for which the Nation now seeks to use the Democratic Party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary to excel in either; which, in my opinion, is by no means the case of music, though called a liberal art, and now in Italy placed even above the other two—a proof of the decline of that country.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Lucas: You’re the Democratic nominee for Senator.
    John McKay: You make that sound like a death sentence.”
    —Jeremy Larner, U.S. screenwriter. Lucas (Peter Boyle)

    “We are the party of all labor.
    The whole earth shall be ours to share
    And every race and craft our neighbor.
    No idle class shall linger there
    Like vultures on the wealth we render
    From field and factory, mill and mine.
    Tomorrow’s sun will rise in splendor
    And light us till the end of time.”
    —Eugène Pottier (1816–1887)