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'''Liberal Party''' is the name of dozens of political party political parties around the world. It usually designates a party that is ideologically liberalism liberal, meaning that they advocate individual rights and civil liberties, and sometimes left-wing_politics left wing, meaning that they are egalitarianism egalitarian and believe in the redistribution of wealth from rich to poor. However, there are also many 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_politics right wing, libertarian, or difficult to categorise. {{see|liberal parties}}

Present-day parties
{| class="wikitable" !Nation !Party |- |Åland |Liberals for Åland |- |Andorra |Liberal Party of Andorra |- |Aruba |Aruban Liberal Organization |- |Australia |Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Democratic Party (Australia) Liberal Democratic Party |- |Austria |Liberales Forum Liberal Forum |- |Bangladesh |Liberal Party Bangladesh |- |Brazil |Liberal Front Party
Liberal Party (Brazil) Liberal Party |- |Canada |Liberal Party of Canada Provincial parties affiliated with the federal party includes Manitoba Liberal Party, New Brunswick Liberal Association, Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador, Liberal Party (Nova Scotia) Nova Scotia Liberal Party, Prince Edward Island Liberal Party, Saskatchewan Liberal Party, and the Yukon Liberal Party. Autonomous povincial liberal parties with ties to the federal party includes Ontario Liberal Party and Alberta Liberal Party. Unaffiliated and independent provincial parties includes Quebec Liberal Party (Parti libéral du Québec) and British Columbia Liberal Party. |- |Colombia |Colombian Liberal Party |- |Croatia |Liberal Party of Croatia Liberal Party |- |Cuba |Cuban Liberal Union |- |Denmark |Venstre (Denmark) Liberal Party |- |Egypt |Liberal Party (Egypt) Liberal Party |- |Finland |Liberals (Finland) Liberals |- |Germany |Free Democratic Party (Germany) Liberals/Free Democrats |- |Gibraltar |Liberal Party of Gibraltar |- |Haiti |Liberal Party (Haiti) Liberal Party |- |Honduras |Liberal Party of Honduras |- |Hong Kong |Liberal Party (Hong Kong) Liberal Party |- |Iceland |Liberal Party (Iceland) Liberal Party (Frjálslyndi Flokkurinn) |- |Japan |Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) Liberal Democratic Party |- |Kosovo |Liberal Party of Kosovo |- |Lithuania |Liberal and Centre Union |- |Republic of Macedonia Macedonia |Liberal Party of Macedonia |- |Morocco |Moroccan Liberal Party |- |The Netherlands |VVD People's Party for Freedom and Democracy |- |Nicaragua |Constitutional Liberal Party |- |Philippines |Liberal Party (Philippines) Liberal Party |- |Portugal |Social Democratic Party (a former International Liberal member) |- |Rwanda |Liberal Party (Rwanda) Liberal Party |- |Serbia and Montenegro |Liberal Alliance of Montenegro
Liberals of Serbia
Serbian Liberal Party |- |Sri Lanka |Liberal Party of Sri Lanka |- |Sweden |Liberal People's Party (Sweden) Liberal People's Party
Liberal Party (Sweden, 2005) Liberal Party (minor party, started in 2005) |- |Switzerland |Liberal Party of Switzerland |- |Ukraine |Liberal Party (Ukraine) Liberal Party |- |United Kingdom |Liberal Democrats (UK) Liberal Democrats
Liberal Party (modern) Liberal Party (not the same as the historic Liberal Party, ''see below'') |- |United States |Liberal Party (New York State) Liberal Party of New York |}

Defunct parties of the name
{| class="wikitable" !Nation !Party |- |Argentina |Liberal Party (Argentina) Liberal Party |- |Armenia |Liberal Party (Armenia) Liberal Party |- |Australia |Commonwealth Liberal Party |- |Belgium |Liberal Party (Belgium) Liberal Party
Liberal Party (Brussels) Brussels Liberal Party
Reformist Liberal Party now merged into Mouvement Réformateur (French-speaking) |- |Bolivia |Liberal Party (Bolivia) Liberal Party |- |Chile |Liberal Party (Chile) Liberal Party |- |Finland |Liberal Party (Finland) Liberal Party
Liberal People's Party (Finland) Liberal People's Party |- |Germany |Liberal Union (Germany) Liberal Union |- |Isle of Man |Manx Liberal Party |- |Israel |[http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%AA (Hebrew )] |- |Japan |Jiyuto Liberal Party |- |Netherlands |Liberal State Party
Liberal Union |- |New Zealand |New Zealand Liberal Party Liberal Party
New Zealand Liberal Party (1963) Liberal Party (1963)
New Zealand Liberal Party (1992) Liberal Party (1992) |- |Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) |Southern Rhodesia Liberal Party |- |Serbia |Liberal Party (Serbia, 1883) Liberal Party |- |South Africa |South African Liberal Party, outlawed by the Apartheid regime |- |Sweden |Liberal Party of Sweden |- |United Kingdom |Liberal_Party_(UK) Liberal Party, merged into Liberal Democrats (UK) Liberal Democrats |- |Uruguay |Liberal Party (Uruguay) Liberal Party |- |Utah Territory |Liberal Party (Utah) Liberal Party |}

In combination
The term ''Liberal'' is also used in combination with: *''Democratic'' {{see|Liberal Democratic Party}} *''National'' {{see|National Liberal Party}} *''Progressive'' {{see|Progressive Liberal Party}} *''Social'' {{see|Social Liberal Party}} *''Radical'' {{see|Radical Liberal Party}}

See also
* Freedom Party * Liberal International * Radical Party * List of political parties {{disambig}} Category:Lists of political parties by generic name ja:自由党 zh:自由黨 see Liberal Party

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