Whigs (British political party)
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The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs merged into the new Liberal Party in the 1850s, though some Whig aristocrats left the Liberal Party in 1885 to form the Liberal Unionist Party, which merged into the Liberals' rival, the modern day Conservative Party, in 1912.
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See also
- Early-18th-century Whig plots
- Foxite
- King of Clubs (Whig club)
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- List of United Kingdom Whig and allied party leaders (1801–1859)
- Patriot Whigs
- Whig government
- Whig party (United States)
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