Mikkonen was elected as a Member of the Finnish Parliament in the 2015 parliamentary elections with 4624 votes and re-elected in 2019 with 6204 votes.[5][6] Her constituency is Savonia-Karelia. She had previously been nominated in three parliamentary elections in 1999, 2007 and 2011 in the constituency of North Karelia.[7][8]
Other activities
Mikkonen was also a member of the advisory board of the National Audit Office of Finland (NAOF) between 2017 and 2019.[9]