Koksal served as President of the Republican People's Party (CHP) Afyonkarahisar Women's Branch in 2007. Köksal contested CHP preselection for the June 2015 general election, she beat incumbent CHP MP Ahmet Toptaş for the first place list position,[2] and was subsequently elected as the lone CHP Member of Parliament for Afyonkarahisar.[3] She was narrowly re-elected in the snap November 2015 elections.[4]