A rotor includes a rotor core including laminated thin plate cores. A single thin plate core includes an inner plate portion defining a portion of an inner core portion and outer plate portions defining a portion of an outer core portion. At least some of the laminated thin plate cores include a connecting portion. A number of connecting portion is one or a plurality, and, when the number of connecting portions is a plurality, the connecting portions at positions other than both left and right sides of each other in a circumferential direction, and, in plan view, the thin plate core includes the connecting portion at a position different from that of a connecting portion in another thin plate core adjacent in an axial direction.