A display device includes: a pixel array portion in which plural pixels in which display gradations are controlled based on written pixel signals are disposed in row and column directions; plural scanning lines disposed in the pixel array portion and supplying scanning pulses for the pixels in the rows; plural signal lines disposed in the pixel array portion and supplying the pixel signals for the pixels in the columns; a scanning line driver successively supplying the scanning pulses to the plural scanning lines and causing the pixels in the rows to carry out write of the pixel signals; and a signal line driver outputting the pixel signals for the pixels to the plural signal lines, and intermittently outputting a charge voltage with lower electric potential than a predetermined pixel signal voltage once or more for one frame period of time to each of the plural signal lines.