Liberal Party
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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 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, libertarian, or difficult to categorise.
For more information on liberal parties, see liberal parties.
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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
- Colombia — Colombian Liberal Party
- Croatia — Liberal Party
- Denmark — Liberal Party
- Cuba — Cuban Liberal Union
- Egypt — Liberal Party
- Finland — Liberals (Finland)
- Germany — Liberals/Free Democrats
- 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 — Constitutional Liberal Party
- Philippines — Liberal Party
- Quebec — Liberal Party of Quebec
- 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
- United Kingdom — Liberal Democrats, Liberal Party (not the same as the historic Liberal Party, see below)
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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
- Israel — [[1]]
- Japan — Liberal Party
- Netherlands — Liberal State Party, Liberal Union
- New Zealand — Liberal Party, Liberal Party (1963), Liberal Party (1992)
- Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) — Southern Rhodesia 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
- Utah Territory — Liberal Party
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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
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