A lithographic printing plate precursor includes an image-recording layer which is capable of being removed with at least one of printing ink and dampening water and contains a compound represented by the following formula (I), a sensitizing dye and a compound having at least one addition-polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated bond: wherein R1 represents a monovalent substituent, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or a monovalent substituent, and X− represents an anion.