The present invention provides a rotor for a rotary 
electric machine that suppresses the occurrence of winding disturbances in the process of winding a coil wire and has a coil field having a uniform outside 
diameter that is less likely to collapse. A coil field of a rotor coil is constructed by winding a coil wire having a circular cross section onto an outer circumference of a drum portion of a 
bobbin in multiple 
layers so as to make columns in each of the 
layers equal in number in an axial direction. Odd numbered 
layers of the coil field are constructed such that the coil wire is wound for approximately one turn around the drum portion in contact with an inner 
peripheral wall surface of a first 
flange portion of the 
bobbin, then wound into a plurality of columns in an axial direction such that the columns of the coil wire contact each other, and the coil wire in a final column forms a gap S relative to an inner 
peripheral wall surface of a second 
flange portion of the 
bobbin, and even numbered layers of the coil field are constructed such that the coil wire is wound for approximately one turn around the drum portion in contact with an inner 
peripheral wall surface of the second 
flange portion, then wound into a plurality of columns in an axial direction such that the columns of the coil wire contact each other, and the coil wire in a final column forms a gap S relative to an inner peripheral wall surface of the first flange portion. The gap S satisfies an expression D / 4≦S≦D / 2 relative to a 
diameter D of the coil wire. Thus, because the occurrence of winding disturbances in the process of winding the coil wire is suppressed, the coil wire can be wound into an aligned state, enabling a coil field that is less likely to collapse to be achieved, and the outside 
diameter of the coil field is made uniform, also preventing damage to an electrically-insulating 
coating resulting from contact with claw-shaped 
magnetic poles.