* Adrian Sanders ( born 1959 ), English Liberal Democrat politician

* Liberal Democrat History Group

The United Kingdom also operates a formal coalition cabinet between the Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties, but this is unusual because the UK normally has a majority government.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

It now forms part of the legislative programme of the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement.

The European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party is a European political party mainly active in the European Union, composed of 52 national-level liberal and liberal-democratic parties from across Europe.

In March 1976, the Federation of Liberal and Democrat Parties in Europe was established, which gradually evolved into the ELDR Party with a matching group in the European Parliament, the Group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

It is a member of the Liberal International and European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, and is the joint-largest member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament.

* Charles Kennedy-Former leader of the Liberal Democrat party and current Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Ross, Skye and Lochaber.

* Danny Alexander-The current Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

The Labour Party has an overall control of the council with 17 seats, whilst the Conservative Party holds 14 seats and the Liberal Democrat party has 1 seat.

* 1967 – Nick Clegg, British Liberal Democrat Leader

A delegation led by the West Cornwall Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George and representatives of the Convention ( Bert Biscoe, Richard Ford, Dick Cole, David Fieldsend and Andrew Climo ) presented the declaration to 10 Downing Street on Wednesday 12 December 2001.

Daphne du Maurier, the well known novelist, was at one point a member of Mebyon Kernow, as was Andrew George, the Liberal Democrat MP ; he still remains sympathetic to many Cornish issues, but is no longer a member of the political party.

In 2011, MK issued a statement saying it " accused the Conservative / Liberal Democrat Coalition of treating Cornwall with absolute contempt " as a result of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, which seeks to equalise the size of constituencies.

He was soon elected as a National Liberal to the Reichstag for Bennigsen's old and supposedly safe Hamburg seat, but was embarrassed by being forced to a second ballot by a Social Democrat rival, and never actually took up his seat.

Notable examples are the International Workingmen's Association ( also called the First International ), the Socialist International ( also called the Second International ), the Communist International ( also called the Third International ), and the Fourth International, as organizations of working class parties, or the Liberal International ( yellow ), Hizb ut-Tahrir, Christian Democratic International and the International Democrat Union ( blue ).

Sir William Harcourt, a prominent Liberal politician in the Victorian era, said this about liberalism in 1872:

It was created on 23 August 1873 for the Liberal politician Henry Bruce.

* Cyril Smith, British Liberal politician

John Hamilton-Gordon, was a Liberal politician and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1886 and from 1905 to 1915 and as Governor General of Canada from 1893 to 1898.

Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, fourth son of the second marriage of the fourth Earl, was a Liberal politician and was created Baron Stanmore in 1893 ( see this title for more information on him and this branch of the family ).

Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare GCB, PC, FRS ( 16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895 ) was a British Liberal Party politician, who served in government most notably as Home Secretary ( 1868 – 1873 ) and as Lord President of the Council.

John Malcolm Fraser AC, CH, GCL, PC (; born 21 May 1930 ) is a former Liberal Party politician who was the 22nd Prime Minister of Australia.

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

In 1948, in the aftermath of the assassination of the populist politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, there occurred a decade of large-scale political violence throughout Colombia, which was a Conservative – Liberal civil war that killed more than 300, 000 people.

Sir Robert William Askin GCMG, ( 4 April 19079 September 1981 ) was an Australian politician and the 32nd Premier of New South Wales from 1965 to 1975, the first representing the Liberal Party of Australia.

* April 19 – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, writer and Liberal Party politician ( d. 1883 )

* October 14 – Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, writer and Liberal Party politician ( b. 1818 )

** Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, Scottish Liberal politician and jurist ( d. 1934 )

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PC ( 17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945 ) was a British Liberal politician and statesman.

Sir William McMahon, GCMG, CH ( 23 February 190831 March 1988 ), was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia.

* Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, Liberal Democrats politician and life peer

* Sir James Murray ( Scottish politician ) ( 1850 – 1932 ), Liberal Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire Eastern

* Richard Smith ( politician ), former Liberal MPP for Nipissing, Ontario

* Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland ( b. 1935 ), British Liberal Democrat politician

* Jožef Školč, Liberal politician ( born in Breginj )

Chrétien used this in his first Liberal leadership campaign, saying that he was " One politician who didn't talk out of both sides of his mouth.

* Charles Sydney Jones ( 1872 – 1947 ), English shipowner and Liberal Party politician

* Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough ( 1805-1860 ), British Liberal Party politician and diplomat, known as Lord Albert Conyngham