The invention discloses a processing method for manufacturing a silver tungsten composite contact material, which comprises the following steps: putting tungsten powder in a reaction vessel, adding water and a proper amount of reducing agents, slowly injecting a silver-ammonia complexing solution under stirring, cleaning silver tungsten coating powder to become neutral, drying the powder, performing uniform ball milling treatment by a high-energy bowl mill, performing distressing treatment of the silver tungsten powder, performing primary pressing and molding, performing presintering, infiltration sintering, and secondary pressing with the protection of reducing atmosphere to obtain the silver tungsten composite contact material. The invention has an advanced and simple process; the distribution of tungsten particles in a silver substrate is improved by a coating process based on a chemical plating principle; a high-energy bowl milling process is selected to allow the powder particlesto repeatedly generate cold welding and fractures, which causes atomic diffusion in the powder particles and improves the mechanical properties, physical properties, electrical properties, and the like of the material; a high temperature presintering process is adopted, which increases the material compactness, greatly optimizes the conductivity, reduces resistivity, and improves arc erosion resistance.