[1] It elects one deputy to the lower house of Congress for each three-year legislative session by means of the first-past-the-post system.

Votes cast in the district also count towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the fifth region.

[2][3] Suspended in 1930,[a] the 11th district was re-established by the 1977 electoral reforms, which increased the number of single-member seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 196 to 300.

Michoacán lost its 12th district in the National Electoral Institute's 2022 redistricting process.

[7] The 11th district's head town was the city of Jiquilpan in the west of the state and it was composed of 13 municipalities.