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Whig may refer to:


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

  • British Whig Party , 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

  • A nickname for the Liberal Party , a UK political party that succeeded the British Whig Party

  • A nickname for the Liberal Democrats , a UK political party formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic PartyExamples of "Whig" used of LibDems: Fight the flour where a LibDem raffled VIP tickets, Guardian Unlimited Politics reminiscences by Laurence Howarth

  • In the United States


  • 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

  • The Neowhig Party , a fictional and satirical political party on the Internet that was founded by William Doty and William Grim in 2003.



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