Kikon won from Bhandari Assembly constituency representing Naga People's Front in the 2023 Nagaland Legislative Assembly election.[3] He polled 13,867 votes and defeated his nearest rival and sitting MLA, Mmhonlumo Kikon of the Bharatiya Janata Party, by a margin of 3,589 votes. Earlier, he lost twice in the 2018 and 2013 Assembly elections to Mmhonlumo Kikon.[4]
In 2018, he lost as an NPF candidate by a margin of 312 votes and in 2013 election, he lost as an independent politician by a margin of 254 votes.[5] After the election, the secretary general of NPF, said that lack of resources for the party is one of the reasons for its losses as only two of the 22, NPF candidates won the election.[6] Kikon started his political career as a student. He was elected as the president of the Naga Students' Federation[7] representing Lotha Students' Union and served from May 2003 to 2005 .