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Can you forecast who will control the Minnesota House?

Control of the Minnesota House has changed parties three times in the past five elections and could alter again this year. With a 12-seat lead, the DFL will stay in power even if they are dealt a net loss of five of their 73 seats. If Republicans add seven seats to their current 61, they will return to the power they gained after the 2010 election and lost in 2012. To see where the battle lines will be waged, use this interactive to explore the factors that will influence the outcome, including elections trends since 2004, the most vulnerable seats and district voter choices for president, governor and the marriage amendment.

September 8, 2014 at 5:09PM

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/269232881.html (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Photo: screenshot of the interactive House tool

By Rachel E. Stassen-Berger and Glenn Howatt

Over the weekend, the Star Tribune launched an interactive graphic to dive into district-by-district voting trends in House districts and allow readers to make their own election forecast for this year's House election.

You can see and play with that graphic here. You can share your predictions on social media and we will track all the predictions for further reports.

The data online involves not only the current members of the House and the 2014 election but analyzing the election results from past elections. Because of decennial redistricting, this involved analyzing precinct voting results to show how the voters in the new districts voted in past elections.