The invention discloses a shunt electric leakage detection system, which comprises a controller and a terminal, wherein the controller is located in a street lamp power box, the terminal is located in a lamp post, the controller is connected with a cloud server through a base station, the cloud server is connected with a management platform, and the management platform makes a city management decision by performing big data analysis on massive street lamp data. The system has the advantages that a controller-multi-terminal detection scheme is adopted, shunt electric leakage detection is achieved, electric leakage of a line can be detected, a fault point can be positioned, the system can instruct the terminal to directly cut off power supply of a fault street lamp, and after the fault point is cut off from the line, due to the fact that a fault section is not electrified any more, safety problems do not exist any more, and other lines are still isolated from the ground and are still safe.