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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2012

How many hunters put this controlled hunt first and how many of them drew it — season by season, for both of Idaho's application periods and both residency pools. Every figure comes from an Idaho Fish and Game response linked at the foot of this page.

What the 2026 drawing did

Idaho offered 100 permits on hunt 2012 in 2026 and issued 100 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 744 hunters put it first and 100 drew, 13.44%.

Idaho grants no preference for having applied before. The department is direct about it — "IDFG does not use any point system in our draw process" — and its own published data has never carried a point, preference or bonus field in the twenty-nine seasons it covers. Applying for eleven years earns exactly what applying for the first time earns. There is no points-to-draw figure on this page because there is none to publish, and any site showing you one for Idaho has invented it.

Published in 29 of the 29 seasons Idaho offers, 1998 to 2026.

Application period

Residency

First-choice draw rate, by season

The rate is the hunters awarded this hunt on their first choice, divided by the hunters who named it first. Both are exact integers Idaho Fish and Game returns in the same record. A dash means nobody named it first, so the drawing answered nothing — absent, not nought.
Season	Period	Area	Permits available	Put it first	Drew on first choice	First-choice draw rate	Put it second	Permits issued
2026	Second	37	3	191	3	1.57%	64	3
2026	First	37	100	744	100	13.44%	285	100
2025	Second	37	3	208	3	1.44%	64	3
2025	First	37	100	650	100	15.38%	239	100
2024	Second	37A	7	251	7	2.79%	52	7
2024	First	37A	100	487	100	20.53%	214	100
2023	Second	37A	1	53	1	1.89%	28	1
2023	First	37A	100	397	100	25.19%	224	100
2022	Second	37A	1	61	1	1.64%	53	1
2022	First	37A	100	453	100	22.08%	179	100
2021	Second	37A	2	117	2	1.71%	52	2
2021	First	37A	100	429	100	23.31%	192	100
2020	Second	37A	3	193	3	1.55%	68	3
2020	First	37A	100	587	100	17.04%	287	100
2019	Second	37A	4	216	4	1.85%	65	4
2019	First	37A	100	490	100	20.41%	202	100
2018	Second	37A	3	103	3	2.91%	42	3
2018	First	37A	70	386	68	17.62%	179	68
2017	First	37A	70	382	70	18.32%	189	70
2016	Second	37A	2	123	2	1.63%	40	2
2016	First	37A	70	393	70	17.81%	189	70
2015	First	37A	70	354	70	19.77%	212	70
2014	Second	37A	2	87	2	2.30%	23	2
2014	First	37A	70	320	70	21.88%	141	70
2013	Second	37A	3	105	3	2.86%	21	3
2013	First	37A	70	312	70	22.44%	153	70
2012	Second	37	1	66	1	1.52%	20	1
2012	First	37	65	398	65	16.33%	164	65
2011	First	37	65	404	65	16.09%	128	65
2010	Second	36A-2*	1	60	1	1.67%	18	1
2010	First	36A-2*	81	572	81	14.16%	128	81
2009	Second	36A-2*	8	192	8	4.17%	44	8
2009	First	36A-2*	81	455	81	17.80%	105	81
2008	Second	37	1	43	1	2.33%	9	1
2008	First	37	55	370	55	14.86%	171	55
2007	First	37	55	305	55	18.03%	126	55
2006	Second	37	1	21	1	4.76%	10	1
2006	First	37	20	162	20	12.35%	93	20
2005	Second	37	1	15	1	6.67%	10	1
2005	First	37	20	170	20	11.76%	94	20
2004	First	37	50	243	50	20.58%	139	50
2003	First	37	50	260	50	19.23%	92	50
2002	First	37	150	396	150	37.88%	176	150
2001	First	37	150	339	150	44.25%	191	150
2000	First	37	150	470	150	31.91%	179	150
1999	First	36A-2	122	723	122	16.87%	288	122
1998	First	37-1	75	284	75	26.41%	175	75

Idaho draws each hunt twice. The first application period is where almost everybody applies; the second is a real second drawing for what is left. They are different competitions and nothing here averages them.

The area label changes across seasons for this hunt number — Idaho printed 37, 37A, 36A-2*, 36A-2, 37-1. A controlled hunt number is reissued, and the department publishes nothing that settles whether the same number covers the same ground from one season to the next: across all its hunts, 874 of 974 numbers see its own internal area key change and 888 see the printed label change, independently of each other. So each row shows the label Idaho printed for that season and this page asserts nothing about the place.

By residency

Idaho splits both applicants and permits by residency. The applicant counts are first-choice only in every season; the permit counts are not, which is why some rates here are blank.
Season	Period	Residency	Put it first	Permits	Draw rate	What the permit count covers	IDFG's own figure
2026	Second	Resident	163	3	1.84%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2026	Second	Nonresident	28	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2026	First	Resident	576	90	15.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2026	First	Nonresident	168	10	5.95%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2025	Second	Resident	188	3	1.60%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2025	Second	Nonresident	20	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	First	Resident	519	90	17.34%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2025	First	Nonresident	131	10	7.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2024	Second	Resident	200	5	2.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2024	Second	Nonresident	51	2	3.92%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2024	First	Resident	366	90	24.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2024	First	Nonresident	121	10	8.26%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2023	Second	Resident	41	1	2.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2023	Second	Nonresident	12	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	312	90	28.85%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2023	First	Nonresident	85	10	11.76%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2022	Second	Resident	51	1	1.96%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2022	Second	Nonresident	10	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	331	90	27.19%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	27%
2022	First	Nonresident	122	10	8.20%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2021	Second	Resident	105	1	0.95%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2021	Second	Nonresident	12	1	8.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2021	First	Resident	361	93	25.76%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	26%
2021	First	Nonresident	68	7	10.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2020	Second	Resident	151	3	1.99%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2020	Second	Nonresident	42	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	First	Resident	417	90	21.58%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	22%
2020	First	Nonresident	170	10	5.88%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2019	Second	Resident	170	3	1.76%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2019	Second	Nonresident	46	1	2.17%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2019	First	Resident	386	90	23.32%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2019	First	Nonresident	104	10	9.62%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2018	Second	Resident	88	3	3.41%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2018	Second	Nonresident	15	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	306	63	20.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	21%
2018	First	Nonresident	80	5	6.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2017	First	Resident	293	63	21.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	22%
2017	First	Nonresident	89	7	7.87%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2016	Second	Resident	109	2	1.83%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2016	Second	Nonresident	14	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	First	Resident	300	63	21.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	21%
2016	First	Nonresident	93	7	7.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2015	First	Resident	292	63	21.58%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	22%
2015	First	Nonresident	62	7	11.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2014	Second	Resident	76	1	1.32%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2014	Second	Nonresident	11	1	9.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2014	First	Resident	267	63	23.60%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	24%
2014	First	Nonresident	53	7	13.21%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2013	Second	Resident	99	2	2.02%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2013	Second	Nonresident	6	1	16.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2013	First	Resident	264	63	23.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	24%
2013	First	Nonresident	48	7	14.58%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2012	Second	Resident	63	1	1.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2012	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	357	59	16.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2012	First	Nonresident	41	6	14.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2011	First	Resident	378	59	15.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2011	First	Nonresident	26	6	23.08%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2010	Second	Resident	50	1	2.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2010	Second	Nonresident	10	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	First	Resident	495	75	15.15%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2010	First	Nonresident	77	6	7.79%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2009	Second	Resident	178	8	4.49%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2009	Second	Nonresident	14	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	400	73	18.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2009	First	Nonresident	55	8	14.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2008	Second	Resident	40	1	2.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2008	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	321	51	15.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2008	First	Nonresident	49	4	8.16%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2007	First	Resident	259	50	19.31%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	19%
2007	First	Nonresident	46	5	10.87%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2006	Second	Resident	19	1	5.26%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2006	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	First	Resident	143	18	12.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2006	First	Nonresident	19	2	10.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2005	Second	Resident	15	1	6.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2005	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2005	First	Resident	141	18	12.77%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2005	First	Nonresident	29	2	6.90%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2004	First	Resident	195	45	23.08%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2004	First	Nonresident	48	5	10.42%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2003	First	Resident	219	45	20.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2003	First	Nonresident	41	5	12.20%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2002	First	Resident	321	135	42.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	42%
2002	First	Nonresident	75	15	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2001	First	Resident	273	135	49.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	49%
2001	First	Nonresident	66	15	22.73%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	22%
2000	First	Resident	388	135	34.79%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	34%
2000	First	Nonresident	82	15	18.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
1999	First	Resident	572	113	19.76%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	19%
1999	First	Nonresident	151	9	5.96%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
1998	First	Resident	236	68	28.81%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
1998	First	Nonresident	48	7	14.58%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%

Why some residency rates are blank. Idaho changed what its residency permit columns count around the 2019 season without renaming them. Before, they cover both application choices; from 2019, first choice only. The applicant columns are first-choice-only throughout. So on an older row where permits went to second-choice hunters, dividing one by the other counts winners the denominator never counted — on one 1998 deer hunt that arithmetic gives 250%. Rather than publish that, or pick an era and apply it to every row, this site reads which meaning each row's own totals support and leaves the rate empty where the two do not match.

IDFG's own figure is the percentage the department publishes alongside its counts. It is a rounded summary and it disagrees with its own rows: on the 1998 hunt above it reads 100. It is shown because the department publishes it and a reader will meet it elsewhere, not because it answers the question this page is about.

Where Idaho's own figures disagree with each other

IDFG printed 5 different area labels for elk hunt 2012 across the seasons it published (36A-2, 36A-2*, 37, 37-1, 37A). Neither its label nor its internal area key is an identity, so this site shows what the department printed for each season and asserts nothing about whether the ground is the same.

Nothing above is corrected. Correcting it would mean publishing a figure the department never stated.

Sources for this hunt

elk/2026-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2026 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2026-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2026 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2025-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2025 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2025-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2025 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2024-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2024 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2024-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2024 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2023-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2023 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2023-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2023 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2022-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2022 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2022-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2022 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2021-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2021 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2021-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2021 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2020-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2020 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2020-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2020 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2019-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2019 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2019-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2019 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2018-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2018 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2018-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2018 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2017-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2017 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2016-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2016 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2016-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2016 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2015-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2015 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2014-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2014 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2014-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2014 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2013-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2013 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2013-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2013 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2012-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2012 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2012-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2012 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2011-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2011 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2010-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2010 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2010-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2010 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2009-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2009 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2009-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2009 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2008-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2008 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2008-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2008 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2007-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2007 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2006-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2006 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2006-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2006 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2005-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2005 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2005-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2005 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2004-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2004 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2003-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2003 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2002-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2002 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2001-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2001 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/2000-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2000 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/1999-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 1999 season, fetched 2026-09-03
elk/1998-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 1998 season, fetched 2026-09-03

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Idaho grants no preference to previously unsuccessful applicants, so nothing on this page accumulates and nothing here predicts next season. See how these numbers are produced and checked, or the Idaho application deadlines.