An electrical contact and an electric component socket configured to be electrically connected to an electric component, wherein the electrical contact is capable of preventing a defect that a contacting portion of the electrical contact bites into a terminal of the electric component, leaving an indentation or giving rise to a state where burrs are liable to occur. An electrical contact has a contacting portion that comes in contact with a terminal of an electric component, the contacting portion includes a plurality of convex portions provided around a center in a tip portion of the contacting portion, the convex portions have flat portions on an outer circumferential side, and peak-shaped portions extending from the flat portions toward the center to come in contact with the terminal, and the contacting portion includes valley-shaped portions, each valley-shaped portion being formed between the respective convex portions in the plurality of convex portions.