Liberal and Democratic Group

The Liberal and Democratic Group (LD) was a group in the European Parliament from 1979 to 2004 . It emerged from the group of Liberals and Allies (LIB) founded in 1953 in the parliamentary assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community . 1976 parallel to the existing Group was the party association Federation of Liberal and Democratic Parties in the European Community , which later under the name of European Liberals and Democrats (ELD) and European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) changed its name. Accordingly, the parliamentary group was renamed several times; 1985 in the Liberal and Democratic Reform Group (LDR) and in 1994 in the Group of the European Liberals, Democratic and Reform Party (ELDR). After the 2004 European elections , the ELDR and the European Democratic Party (EDP) founded the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).

Election results

year	%	Mandates
1979	9.8%	40/410
1984	7.1%	31/434
1989	9.5%	49/518
1994	7.6%	43/567
1999	8.0%	50/626

Group leaders

Years	Surname	photo
1979-1984	Martin Bangemann
1984-1989	Simone Veil
1989-1991	Valery Giscard d'Estaing
1991-1994	Yves Galland
1994-1998	Gijs de Vries
1998-2002	Pat Cox
2002-2004	Graham Watson

Individual evidence

1. ^ Groupe Alliance des Démocrates et des Libéraux pour l'Europe (ADLE) . In: europe-politique.eu. Retrieved December 9, 2019.