The following are the sites for the 43 presidential nominating conventions held by the Democratic Party, including this year's event in Los Angeles. Both conventions held in Los Angeles are in bold.

 

Year	City	Year	City
1832	Baltimore	1920	San Francisco
1835 *	Baltimore	1924	New York
1840	Baltimore	1928	Houston
1844	Baltimore	1932	Chicago
1848	Baltimore	1936	Philadelphia
1852	Baltimore	1940	Chicago
1856	Cincinnati	1944	Chicago
1860 **	Charleston, S.C.	1948	Philadelphia
	Baltimore
1864	Chicago	1952	Chicago
1868	New York	1956	Chicago
1872	Baltimore	1960	Los Angeles
1876	St. Louis	1964	Atlantic City, N.J.
1880	Cincinnati	1968	Chicago
1884	Chicago	1972	Miami Beach
1888	St. Louis	1976	New York
1892	Chicago	1980	New York
1896	Chicago	1984	San Francisco
1900	Kansas City	1988	Atlanta
1904	St. Louis	1992	New York
1908	Denver	1992	New York
1912	Baltimore	1996	Chicago
1916	St. Louis	2000	Los Angeles

* The Democratic ticket for the 1836 election was nominated in May 1835.
** After the scheduled 1860 convention in Charleston deadlocked, the Democratic Party reconvened in Baltimore.