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Whig or Whigs may refer to:
Parties and factions
In the British Isles
- A faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the original whigs. (See also Whiggamore Raid)
- Whigs (British political party), one of two political parties in England, Great Britain, Ireland, and later the United Kingdom, from the 17th to 19th centuries, modern-day Liberals
- Whiggism, the political philosophy of the British Whig party
- Radical Whigs, a faction of British Whigs associated with the American Revolution
- Patriot Whigs or Patriot Party, a Whig faction
- A nickname for the Liberal Party, a UK political party that succeeded the Whigs in the 1840s
- The Whig Party, a tiny 2014 revival of the Whigs
- Whiggism, a historical political philosophy
- Whig history, the Whig philosophy of history
In the United States
- A term used at the time for Patriots, supporters of the American Revolution
- Whig Party (United States), a major political party which operated from 1834–1856
- Modern Whig Party, a small political group formed in 2009
Other
- True Whig Party, also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's overwhelmingly dominant political party from 1878 to 1980
- Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party created by alternate history author Harry Turtledove
Music
- The Whigs (band), a 2000s garage rock band
- The Afghan Whigs, a 1990s indie rock band
Newspapers
- Cecil Whig of Cecil County, Maryland, United States
- Kingston Whig-Standard of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, originally named the British Whig
- Brownlow's Whig, an East Tennessee, USA, newspaper published under various titles
- Quincy Herald-Whig of Quincy, Illinois, United States
Other uses
- American Whig-Cliosophic Society, also known as "Whig-Clio", a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University
- White House Iraq Group, also known as the White House Information Group
- Whig history, a theoretical approach among historians
See also
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