Whig may refer to: parties and factions In the United Kingdom 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, a UK… (More on Whiggism)