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'''Whig''' may refer to:
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==Political parties and factions==
===In the United Kingdom===
* [[Kirk Party]], a faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the original Whigs. (See also [[Whigg]] and [[Whiggamore Raid]])
* [[Whig (British political faction)]], one of two political parties in England and the United Kingdom from the 17th to 19th centuries
* [[Radical Whigs]], a faction of British Whigs associated with the American Revolution
* [[Patriot Whigs]] or Patriot Party
* A nickname for the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]], a UK political party that succeeded that country's Whigs
* A nickname for the [[Liberal Democrats]], a UK political party formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party
===In the United States===
* [[Whig Party (United States)]], an American political party which operated from 1834-1856
* A nickname for [[Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriots]], supporters of the American Revolution
===Other===
* [[True Whig Party]], also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's only legal political party from 1878 to 1980
* [[Confederate States Whig Party]], a fictional political party created by alternate history author Harry Turtledove
==Music==
*[[The Whigs]], 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
* ''[[Knoxville Whig]]'', of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
* ''[[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
* [[Whiggish historiography]], a theoretical approach among historians
==See also==
* [[Wig (disambiguation)]]
* [[Tory]]
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