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Antti Samuli Kaikkonen is a Finnish politician of the Centre party. He has been a member of the Finnish Parliament from Uusimaa since 2003. Kaikkonen was the president of Finnish Centre Youth from 1997 to 2001. He has also been a member of Finnish Delegation to the Council of Europe since 2004.In 2013, Kaikkonen was convicted of corruption charges stemming from a campaign financing scandal.On 21 June 2016, Kaikkonen was chosen as the chairman of the Centre Party's parliamentary group.By 2019, Kaikkonen was parliamentary head of the coalition-leading Centre Party.