Liquid crystal display panel

A liquid crystal display panel comprising:

• a liquid crystal cell including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate;
• a first polarizing plate disposed on a back surface side of the liquid crystal cell;
• and
• a second polarizing plate disposed on a viewer's side of the liquid crystal cell,
• wherein the first substrate includes a pair of electrodes that causes a transverse electric field to be generated in the liquid crystal layer,
• the liquid crystal layer contains a nematic liquid crystal whose dielectric anisotropy is negative,
• the liquid crystal layer has Δnd of less than 550 nm, where Δn is the birefringent index of the nematic liquid crystal and d is the thickness of the liquid crystal layer,
• the liquid crystal layer is in a twist alignment state when no voltage is applied,
• when polarized light whose Stokes parameter S3 takes on an absolute value |S3| of 1.00 enters the liquid crystal layer, |S3| of polarized light having perpendicularly passed through the liquid crystal layer is 0.85 or greater, and
• the first polarizing plate and the second polarizing plate are circularly polarizing plates or elliptically polarizing plates whose ellipticity is 0.422 or greater.