<p>An electric cleaner where a lower mesh filter (34) can have a sufficient area with the cleaner made to be a space saving one. A communication opening (35) is formed in a partition wall (26) positioned between a wind passage (31) for rough dust and a wind passage (32) for fine dust, and the lower mesh filter (34) is placed in the communication opening (35). The wind passage (31) for rough dust is the passage through which rough dust that is separated in a separation section (16) and passed through a separation main section (17) having a substantially linear hollow-cylindrical shape passes together with suction wind. The wind passage (32) for fine dust is the passage through which the suction wind passes together with fine dust that is separated in the separation section (16) and passed through an auxiliary opening (18). The communication opening (35) is the opening through which the suction wind flowed into the rough dust wind passage (31) is vented, and the communication opening is formed along the rough dust wind passage (31). The structure enables the lower mesh filter (34) to easily have a sufficient area, and this is achievable without the increase in a cross-sectional area of the wind passage (31) for rough dust and in the size of a cleaner body (2) etc. and with the cleaner body formed to be a space saving one.</p>
