To prevent light leakage due to alignment disorder and to realize an image having superior contrast, in displaying black with an active matrix liquid crystal panel of a lateral electric field liquid crystal display mode.

In a manufacturing process for the liquid crystal display device comprising a pair of substrates, at least one of which is transparent, and a liquid crystal composition layer held between the substrates, when spacer beads are attached to one substrate out of the pair of the substrates subsequent to rubbing treatment of alignment layers, the manufacturing process is characterized by once attaching the spacer beads to tips of gummy soft protrusions, and then retransferring the spacer beads to positions without producing lowering of the contrast.