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{{wiktionary|Whig}} '''Whig''' or '''Whigs''' may refer to: {{TOC right}}

== Parties and factions==

===In Australia=== * True Whig Party (Australia), a satirical political party

===In the British Isles===

* 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 ** 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, the UK political party that succeeded the Whigs in the 1840s * The Whig Party, a supposed revival of the historical Whig party, launched in 2014 * Whig government, a list of British Whig governments * Whig history, the Whig philosophy of history * A pejorative nickname for the Kirk Party, a radical Presbyterian faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms ** Whiggamore Raid, a march on Edinburgh by supporters of the Kirk faction in September 1648

===In the United States=== * A term used at the time of the American Revolution for Patriots (supporters of the revolution against England) * Whig Party (United States), a major political party which operated from 1834 to 1856

===In Liberia=== * True Whig Party, also known as the "Liberian Whig Party", Liberia's overwhelmingly dominant political party from 1878 to 1980

==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 * ''The 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 * Confederate States Whig Party, a fictional political party created by alternate history author Harry Turtledove * WHIG-CD, a low-power television station (channel 30, virtual 31) licensed to serve Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States; see List of television stations in North Carolina

==See also== * Wig (disambiguation) * Tory