Abstract: An electrical swing mechanism having a drive device with a rotor and a stator. The drive device carries out self-returning reciprocation with a rotation angle of the rotor. An intermittent drive transmission device transmits the rotation of the drive device to a utilization mechanism. An electric source unit is used for exciting the stator with a pulse current. The drive device has a rotor which is magnetized so that the same poles are formed on a diametral line intersecting the rotation axis thereof and a magnetization angle between different poles is 2 .alpha., and a stator whose magnetic pole angle .beta. is larger than said magnetization angle 2 .alpha.. The intermittent drive transmission device comprises a cut disk member having a ratchet pawl and is reciprocated by the drive device. A ratchet plate member having ratchet teeth are moved one pitch by one pitch by the ratchet pawl.