State senator Creigh Deeds won Loudoun handily -- and the rest of Virginia -- in an election that was widely predicted to be a close race.

Deeds won 46.96 percent of Loudoun's votes, according to the unofficial results found on the Virginia State Board of Elections' Web site; former DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe won 30.36 percent; and state delegate Brian Moran, 22.66 percent.

It seems that Paradox13VA who blogs at Leesburg Tomorrow best predicted the Deeds landslide as he watched yesterday's late afternoon storms roll in. He wrote:

"In what is expected to be a low-turnout election in the first place, the weather in Northern Virginia seems to be conspiring against turnout in the area the trailing candidates are counting on - Northern Virginia. If NoVa doesn't turn out, what is predicted to be a Deeds win may wind up a Deeds blowout. After all, Mr. Deeds has the most committed voters in this race, the kind of voters who show up in spite of the rain."

I forecasted Monday a Moran win in Loudoun. Boy, was I wrong! Out of the 7,970 LoCo ballots cast for the Democrat governor contender yesterday or in abstentia, only 1,802 were for Moran.

As blogger Loudoun Insider points out today on Too Conservative, Moran lost big (read: last place) in the districts of the Loudoun supervisors who publicly endorsed him: Supervisors Susan Buckley (D-Sugarland Run), Stevens Miller (D-Dulles) and Kelly Burk (D-Leesburg). Will the Deeds campaign forgive them?

In other election news, Loudoun voters overwhelmingly chose Jody Wagner to be the Democrat challenger for lieutenant governor. Wagner captured almost 78 percent of Loudoun votes. She'll face Republican incumbent Bill Bolling in November.

And speaking of Republicans, it was hard to escape the message yesterday that GOP candidate Bob McDonnell is in the running for governor, too. Even though yesterday's election belonged to the Democrats, Loudoun County Republican Committee members didn't miss the opportunity to influence future voters by peppering key polling places with McDonnell signs. (Check out this photo posted by HoodaThunk? blogger Ric James.)

More than 4.3 percent of Loudoun registered voters cast ballots in yesterday's primary. Did you? Share your election thoughts in the space below.

For more local election coverage, check out these stories at the Loudoun Independent and the Loudoun Times Mirror.

For more election information, check out The Washington Post's Race to Richmond page.