With growing cases of conflicts, military coup d’états, militancy, terrorism, insurgency, ethnoreligious clashes and state failure, scholarship on what constitutes the greatest propeller of all these conflicts in West Africa has not extensively (re)calibrated the most prominent factor responsible for these perennial crises. Or rather suffers from a lack of broader context. Some scholars tend to locate such factors as land struggle, ethnic rivalry and economic conflicts, among others. In this chapter, we mapped out competitive elections as West Africa’s greatest inducer of conflicts and show how competitive political elections act as accelerant to national security crises across the sub-region. Seeking to appraise conflicts and national security from various dimensions in West Africa, the chapter demonstrates the extent to which elections in West Africa determine and shape conflicts and national security and contribute to democratic (in)stability.