For 135 years, IBEW leaders from across North America have gathered to chart the course of the union’s next several years, elect new leaders and return home energized to continue organizing and representing the membership of this great union.
Today, the Convention is held every 5 years, but it hasn’t always been that way.
Previous conventions have been held in:
1. St. Louis, MO – November 1891
2. Chicago, IL – November 1892
3. Cleveland, OH – November 1893
4. Washington, D.C. – November 1895
5. Detroit, MI – November 1897
6. Pittsburgh, PA – October 1899
7. St. Louis, MO – October 1901
8. Salt Lake City, UT – September 1903
9. Louisville, KY – September 1905
10. Chicago, IL – September & October 1909
11. Rochester, NY – September 1911
12. Boston, MA – September 1913
13. St. Paul, MN – September & October 1915
14. Atlantic City, NJ – September 1917
15. New Orleans, LA – September 1919
16. St. Louis, MO – September & October 1921
17. Montreal, Quebec, CAN – August 1923
18. Seattle, WA – August 1925
19. Detroit, MI – August 1927
20. Miami, FL – September 1929
21. St. Louis, MO – October 1941
22. San Francisco, CA – September 1946
23. Atlantic City, NJ – September 1948
24. Miami, FL – October 1950
25. Chicago, IL – August & September 1954
26. Cleveland, OH – September & October 1958
27. Montreal, Quebec, CAN – September 1962
28. St. Louis, MO – September 1966
29. Seattle, WA – September & October 1970
30. Kansas City, MO – September 1974
31. Atlantic City, NJ – October 1978
32. Los Angeles, CA – September 1982
33. Toronto, Ontario, CAN – September 1986
34. St. Louis, MO – October 1991
35. Philadelphia, PA – September 1996
36. San Francisco, CA – September 2001
37. Cleveland, OH – September 2006
38. Vancouver, BC – September 2011
39. St. Louis, MO – September 2016
40. Chicago, IL – May 2022 (delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic)
