An electric rotary machine has a motor frame having a cooling fluid passage, a rotary shaft rotatably supported by the motor frame, a rotor fixed to the rotary shaft, and a stator. The stator has a core having a ring shape and a stator winding wound around the core. The stator core is arranged to face an outer periphery of the rotor in a radial direction. An inlet section and an outlet section are formed in the motor frame. Cooling fluid is introduced into the cooling fluid passage through the inlet section and discharged from the outlet section. A partition wall section is formed on the motor frame and divides the cooling fluid passage into a cooling fluid inlet passage and a cooling fluid outlet passage. Through an opening formed in the partition wall section, the cooling fluid inlet passage and the cooling fluid outlet passage communicate with each other.