Even though wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been employed for more than a decade, it is currently widely utilised by a variety of contemporary applications, including medical observation, disaster management, and environmental monitoring. In addition to the low channel bandwidth, this form of network also has limited energy and a short lifespan. Due to the significant influence of communication costs on the power consumption of nodes, bandwidth poses the greatest hurdles to such systems. Clustering has shown to be one of the most effective strategies for conserving energy in WSNs. We proposed EEC-NP method to enhanced energy efficient head election protocol in WSN. The EEC-NP method has used Enhanced Non-Deterministic Polynomial krill herd (NP-KH), cluster header selection and waking latent algorithm. Simulation studies indicated that EEC-NP is capable of extending the period between the death of the first node in a sensor field, hence increasing the system's longevity and stability in comparison to previous protocols.