District 23 (Chamber of Deputies of Chile)

District 23
Distrito 23
Electoral District
for the Chamber of Deputies
Location of District 23 within Chile
Commune
RegionAraucanía
Population660,897 (2017)
Electorate601,444 (2021)
Area14,045 km2 (2020)
Current Electoral District
Created2017
Seats7 (2017–present)
Deputies
List

District 23 (Spanish: Distrito 23) is one of the 28 multi-member electoral districts of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the National Congress, the national legislature of Chile. The district was created by the 2015 electoral reform and came into being at the following general election in 2017. It consists of the communes of Carahue, Cholchol, Cunco, Curarrehue, Freire, Gorbea, Loncoche, Nueva Imperial, Padre Las Casas, Pitrufquén, Pucón, Saavedra, Temuco, Teodoro Schmidt, Toltén and Villarrica in the region of Araucanía. The district currently elects seven of the 155 members of the Chamber of Deputies using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2021 general election the district had 601,444 registered electors.