Whig or Whigs may refer to:
Parties and factions [edit]
In the British Isles [edit]
- A faction of the Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and the original Whigs. (See also Whiggamore Raid)
- Whiggism, a historical political philosophy that grew out of the Parliamentarian faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
- 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
- Radical Whigs, a faction of British Whigs associated with the American Revolution
- Patriot Whigs or Patriot Party
- A nickname for the Liberal Party, a UK political party that succeeded that country's Whigs
In the United States [edit]
- 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
Newspapers [edit]
- 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
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