During that time, it returned one deputy to the Chamber of Deputies for each three-year legislative session by means of the first-past-the-post system, electing its first in the 1961 mid-term election and its last in the 2021 mid-terms.

From 1979 onwards, votes cast in the district also counted towards the calculation of proportional representation ("plurinominal") deputies elected from the country's electoral regions.

[1][2] The 23rd and 24th districts were abolished in the National Electoral Institute's 2022 redistricting process because the capital's population no longer warranted that number of seats in Congress.

[4][5][6][7] The districting scheme in force from 1978 to 1996 was the result of the 1977 electoral reforms, which increased the number of single-member seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 196 to 300.

[8] Between 1978 and 1996, the 23rd district comprised the whole of the borough of Cuajimalpa and part of Álvaro Obregón.