The present invention aims to provide conductive particles which can reduce the stress while maintaining high hardness (hardly causing cracks even in a state of being crushed in connection process) by improving rolling properties and can ensure adequate conductive reliability not only with respect to ITO substrates, but also with respect to IZO substrates, an anisotropic conductive film provided with the conductive particles, a joined structure provided with the anisotropic conductive film, and a joining method using the anisotropic conductive film. The conductive particles of the present invention include polymer fine particles, and a conductive layer formed on surfaces of the polymer fine particles, wherein an outermost surface shell of the conductive layer is a nickel-palladium alloy layer.