Disclosed herein is a display device including a pixel array section having pixel circuits arranged in a form of a matrix, the pixel circuits each including a driving transistor for generating a driving current, an electrooptic element connected to an output terminal of the driving transistor, a storage capacitor for retaining information corresponding to signal amplitude of a video signal, and a sampling transistor for writing the information corresponding to the signal amplitude to the storage capacitor; a vertical scanning section configured to generate a vertical scanning pulse for vertical scanning of the pixel circuits; a horizontal scanning section configured to supply the video signal to the pixel circuits so as to coincide with the vertical scanning in the vertical scanning section; and a driving signal constancy achieving circuit for holding the driving current constant.