The Cherokee Nation's Tribal Council is made up of seventeen Tribal Councilors elected from the fifteen districts within the reservation boundaries and two at-large seats.

In 2023, tribal council elections were scheduled to be held for districts 1, 3, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, and for one of the at-large seats.

[3] Eight out of the seventeen seats on the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council were scheduled to have elections in 2023.

In order to win a seat on the Tribal Council, a candidate must receive 50% plus one vote.

[5] A complaint by District 1 candidate Trae Ratliff alleged that absentee ballots could be read through envelopes with the use of a flashlight.