To provide a liquid crystal display device in which flicker of video is unlikely to occur even after intermittent lighting timing of a backlight light source is switched.

A switch period (Y) which comprise M (M is an integer equal to or larger than N) frame periods that combine one or more frame period (Y1) driven by a pattern of first compression lighting timing where a time axis of a pattern of lighting timing ((1)) before switching is compressed to one-Nth (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2) and one or more frame period (Y2) driven by a pattern of second compression lighting timing in which a time axis of a pattern of lighting timing ((2)) after switching is compressed to one-Nth is provided between a last frame period (X) by the lighting timing ((1)) before switching and a start frame period (Y) by the lighting timing ((2)) after switching.