Helmer Mikkelsen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

.

He was born in Børselv

Børselv

Børselv is a village in Porsanger in Finnmark, Northern Norway. It is located along the Porsangerfjord at the outlet of the river Børselva....

, and was the mayor of Porsanger

Porsanger

Porsanger or Porsáŋgu or Porsanki is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Lakselv...

 from 1967 to 1975. He was a member of Finnmark

Finnmark

or Finnmárku is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland to the south and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast.The county was formerly known as Finmarkens...

 county council

County council (Norway)

A County Council is the highest governing body of the county municipalities in Norway. The county council sets the scope of the county municipal activity. The council is led by a chairman or county mayor...

 from 1975 to 1987. During the last term, he served as county mayor. From May 1986 to April 1987, he was ill, and Oddny Aleksandersen

Oddny Aleksandersen

Oddny Aleksandersen, born , is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.Born in Vadsø, she chaired the local party chapter in Vadsø from 1979 to 1982 and was a member of the executive committee of Vadsø municipal council from 1979 to 1983...

 took over as acting county mayor.

He was also a deputy board member of Ságat

Ságat

Ságat is a Sámi newspaper written in Norwegian that is published in the county of Finnmark in Norway with a circulation of 2,717 ...

from 1988 to 1989. He died in 1989.