A liquid crystal display includes a pair of support substrates, a liquid crystal layer, and pixel circuits that are arrayed in a matrix and control the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules. Each pixel circuit includes two power terminals set at potentials of opposite polarities, each potential having a predetermined level difference relative to a reference potential, two pixel electrodes that retain charges supplied from the power terminals and apply a potential difference obtained by the retained charges to the liquid crystal layer as a liquid crystal drive voltage, an input transistor that includes a gate electrode, which receives a video signal, and redistributes the charges retained in the pixel electrodes in accordance with the video signal, and a switch circuit that connects the pixel electrodes to the power terminals and connects the pixel electrodes to one and the other of the source and drain electrodes of the input transistor.