Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a light shielding layer 21 at a portion excluding a display pattern on a transparent substrate 12 wherein material for the light shielding layer has an electrical insulation property of not less than 1012 &OHgr;/□ in terms of insulation resistance and an optical density (OD value) of not less than 2.0 per a film thickness of 1 &mgr;m.