The present invention provides an image-receiving sheet for electrophotography which contains a support, and a raw paper, wherein the support contains at least one layer of a polymer coating layer on both surfaces of the raw paper and at least one layer of a toner image-receiving layer on a surface of the support; and the tensile strength in the Z-axis direction of the raw paper defined in the JAPAN TAPPI Paper and Pulp Test Method No. 18-1 is 350 kN/m.sup.2 to 650 kN/m.sup.2. The present invention also provides an image forming process using the image-receiving sheet for electrophotography.