To inexpensively provide an electric cutting machine with further improved cutting accuracy for a target marking line when a worker machines a material, and improved workability at a dark place.

This electric cutting machine is provided with a main body with built-in electric motor, a saw blade rotatably held on the main body, a saw cover formed into a shape to cover a part of an outer periphery of the saw blade and a base rotatably mounted on a lower part of the main body to be a guide member when performing a cutting work. The machine is provided with a lighting device for irradiating the vicinity of a guide piece provided at an end part of the base.