This article gives an overview of liberal and radical parties in Chile. It is limited to liberal and radical parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. The sign ⇒ means a reference to another party in that scheme. For inclusion in this scheme, parties do not necessarily need to have labeled themselves as a liberal party. Introduction Liberalism was organized as the traditional opposition to conservatism in Chile. In the 1860s radical liberals formed the radical current. Traditional liberalism disappeared in the 1960s into conservatism and radicalism developed into social democracy, leaving liberalism unrepresented. Originally the Social Democrat Radical Party (Partido Radical Social-Democráta, member SI) was a left of center liberal party, but nowadays it is a social democratic party. The timeline Liberal Party 1846: The Liberal Party (Partido Liberal) is formed 1861: A vehemtly anticlericalist faction formed the ⇒ Radical Party 1876: A faction supporting the presidential candidacy of Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna formed the ⇒ Liberal Democratic Party, but returns to the ⇒ Liberal Party after Vicuña ends his candidacy 1885: An anti-government faction formed the ⇒ Independent Liberal Party 1891: The faction supporting President Balmaceda in the 1891 civil war formed a second ⇒ Liberal Democratic Party. 1920: Dissidents seceded as the ⇒ Unionist Liberal 1931: Another faction formed the ⇒ United Liberal Party 1933: The ⇒ Liberal Democratic Party and the ⇒ Independent Liberal Party merged into the Liberal Party 1966: The party merged into the new National Party (Partido Nacional) Radical Party 1863: A radical faction of the ⇒ Liberal Party formed the Radical Party (Partido Radical) 1887: The more leftist Democratic Party seceded from the party 1931: The more leftist faction formed the ⇒ Radical Socialist Party 1941: The ⇒ Radical Socialist Party rejoined the party 1946: A moderate faction formed the ⇒ Radical Democratic Party 1948: A faction opposition to the anti-Communist laws ⇒ Radical Doctrinal Party 1949: The ⇒ Radical Democrat Party rejoined the party 1961: The ⇒ Radical Doctrinal Party rejoined the party 1969: In reaction to left-wing tendencies an anti-Communist faction seceded as ⇒ Radical Democracy 1971: A moderate faction of the party formed the ⇒ Left Radical Party 1972: The ⇒ Socialdemocrat Party joined the party 1994: The party, who was unable to garner a significant number of votes in the parliamentary elections, joins the Party of Social Democracy and forms the Social Democrat