U.S. Government – Democratic and Republican Party Presidential Conventions
| Election | Democratic Nominee | Convention City | Republican Nominee | Convention City | Whig Nominee | Convention City |
| 2020 | Joe Biden | Milwaukee | Donald Trump | Charlotte | ||
| 2016 | Hillary Clinton | Philadelphia | Donald Trump | Cleveland | ||
| 2012 | Barack Obama | Charlotte | Mitt Romney | Tampa | ||
| 2008 | Barack Obama | Denver | John McCain | St. Paul | ||
| 2004 | John Kerry | Boston | George W. Bush | New York City | ||
| 2000 | Al Gore | Los Angeles | George W. Bush | Philadelphia | ||
| 1996 | Bill Clinton | Chicago | Bob Dole | San Diego | ||
| 1992 | Bill Clinton | New York City | George H.W. Bush | Houston | ||
| 1988 | Michael S. Dukakis | Atlanta | George H.W. Bush | New Orleans | ||
| 1984 | Walter Mondale | San Francisco | Ronald Reagan | Dallas | ||
| 1980 | Jimmy Carter | New York City | Ronald Reagan | Detroit | ||
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter | New York City | Gerald Ford | Kansas City | ||
| 1972 | George McGovern | Miami Beach | Richard Nixon | Miami Beach | ||
| 1968 | Hubert Humphrey | Chicago | Richard Nixon | Miami Beach | ||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Atlantic City | Barry Goldwater | San Francisco | ||
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy | Los Angeles | Richard Nixon | Chicago | ||
| 1956 | Adlai Stevenson | Chicago | Dwight Eisenhower | San Francisco | ||
| 1952 | Adlai Stevenson | Chicago | Dwight Eisenhower | Chicago | ||
| 1948 | Harry S. Truman | Philadelphia | Thomas Dewey | Philadelphia | ||
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Chicago | Thomas Dewey | Chicago | ||
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Chicago | Wendell Willkie | Philadelphia | ||
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Philadelphia | Alfred Landon | Cleveland | ||
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Chicago | Herbert Hoover | Chicago | ||
| 1928 | Alfred E. Smith | Houston | Herbert Hoover | Kansas City | ||
| 1924 | John W. Davis | New York City | Calvin Coolidge | Cleveland | ||
| 1920 | James M. Cox | San Francisco | Warren G. Harding | Chicago | ||
| 1916 | Woodrow Wilson | St. Louis | Charles Evans Hughes | New York City | ||
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson | Baltimore | William Howard Taft | Chicago | ||
| 1908 | William Jennings Bryan | Denver | William Howard Taft | Chicago | ||
| 1904 | Alton B. Parker | St. Louis | Theodore Roosevelt | Chicago | ||
| 1900 | William Jennings Bryan | Kansas City | William McKinley | Philadelphia | ||
| 1896 | William Jennings Bryan | Chicago | William McKinley | St. Louis | ||
| 1892 | Grover Cleveland | Chicago | Benjamin Harrison | Minneapolis | ||
| 1888 | Grover Cleveland | St. Louis | Benjamin Harrison | Chicago | ||
| 1884 | Grover Cleveland | Chicago | James G. Blaine | Chicago | ||
| 1880 | Winfield S. Hancock | Cincinnati | James A. Garfield | Chicago | ||
| 1876 | Samuel J. Tilden | St. Louis | Rutherford B. Hayes | Cincinnati | ||
| 1872 | Horace Greeley | Baltimore | Ulysses S. Grant | Philadelphia | ||
| 1868 | Horatio Seymour | New York City | Ulysses S. Grant | Chicago | ||
| 1864 | George B. McClellan | Chicago | Abraham Lincoln | Chicago | ||
| 1860 | John C. Breckinridge (Southern), and Stephen Douglas (Northern) | Charleston and Baltimore | Abraham Lincoln | Chicago | John Bell | Baltimore |
| 1856 | James Buchanan | Cincinnati | John C. Frémont | Philadelphia | Millard Fillmore | Baltimore |
| 1852 | Franklin Pierce | Baltimore | Winfield Scott | Baltimore | ||
| 1848 | Lewis Cass | Baltimore | Zachary Taylor | Baltimore | ||
| 1844 | James K. Polk | Baltimore | Henry Clay | Baltimore | ||
| 1840 | Martin Van Buren | Baltimore | William Henry Harrison | Harrisburg | ||
| 1836 | Martin van Buren | Baltimore | ||||
| 1832 | Andrew Jackson | Baltimore |
