Electrical contact comprising a contact element, which has a connection portion, which serves for the electrical conducting connection to an electrical conductor, but a contact holding portion connected integrally to the connection portion, for contacting a counter contact, and a support element, which encloses the contact holding portion at least at a portion of its length along a longitudinal axis and formed in cross-section as a hollow rectangle delimited by four walls, has along the longitudinal axis a front end and a rear end facing the connection ports. Further, the support element has along the longitudinal axis (4) a front end (16) and a rear end (17), with the rear end (17) facing the connection portion (5), has a first projection (18) close to the front end (16), which first projection (18) has a first insertion portion (19) which distance from the longitudinal axis (4) increases in a direction from the front end (16) towards the rear end (17) and has side walls (22) and ends with an end edge (20), has a second projection (23) close to the rear end (17), which second projection (23) has a second insertion portion (24), which distance to the longitudinal axis (4) increases in a direction towards the rear end (17) in an inclined manner away from the first projection (18) relative to the longitudinal axis (4), wherein the first projection (18) as well as the second projection (23) are formed by non-cutting working from one of the walls (12, 13, 14, 15), so that they project away from the longitudinal axis (4) from that wall (14).