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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2027

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 150 permits on hunt 2027 in 2026 and issued 150 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 918 hunters put it first and 150 drew, 16.34%.

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	48	8	628	8	1.27%	181	8
2026	First	48	150	918	150	16.34%	505	150
2025	Second	48	4	349	4	1.15%	119	4
2025	First	48	150	697	150	21.52%	491	150
2024	Second	49	1	69	1	1.45%	42	1
2024	First	49	20	284	20	7.04%	225	20
2023	First	49	20	313	20	6.39%	309	20
2022	First	48	20	183	20	10.93%	123	20
2021	Second	48	3	233	3	1.29%	45	3
2021	First	48	20	184	20	10.87%	108	20
2020	Second	48	2	206	2	0.97%	70	2
2020	First	48	125	692	125	18.06%	398	125
2019	Second	48	3	283	3	1.06%	110	3
2019	First	48	125	671	125	18.63%	365	125
2018	Second	46-2	1	380	1	0.26%	80	1
2018	First	46-2	50	1,129	50	4.43%	307	50
2017	Second	46-2	1	442	1	0.23%	46	1
2017	First	46-2	50	960	50	5.21%	225	50
2016	Second	48	4	206	4	1.94%	107	4
2016	First	48	115	586	115	19.62%	322	115
2015	Second	48	1	67	1	1.49%	51	1
2015	First	48	115	507	115	22.68%	358	115
2014	Second	49	3	347	3	0.86%	112	3
2014	First	49	200	1,468	200	13.62%	702	200
2013	Second	49	3	335	3	0.90%	111	3
2013	First	49	200	1,288	200	15.53%	653	200
2012	Second	49	2	172	2	1.16%	81	2
2012	First	49	150	891	150	16.84%	539	150
2011	Second	49	1	64	1	1.56%	57	1
2011	First	49	150	857	150	17.50%	450	150
2010	Second	50-1	3	163	3	1.84%	59	3
2010	First	50-1	75	631	75	11.89%	275	75
2009	First	51	25	270	25	9.26%	121	25
2008	First	51	25	254	25	9.84%	175	25
2007	First	51	25	286	25	8.74%	126	25
2006	Second	51	1	37	1	2.70%	28	1
2006	First	51	35	311	35	11.25%	124	35
2005	Second	49	13	489	13	2.66%	116	13
2005	First	49	225	1,026	225	21.93%	570	225
2004	Second	49	10	423	10	2.36%	118	10
2004	First	49	225	989	225	22.75%	518	225
2003	First	49	225	877	225	25.66%	514	225
2002	First	49	316	1,125	316	28.09%	583	316
2001	First	49	316	1,321	316	23.92%	570	316
2000	First	49	316	1,270	316	24.88%	553	316
1999	First	50-1	122	1,322	122	9.23%	410	122
1998	First	49-2	250	1,119	250	22.34%	582	250

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 48, 49, 46-2, 50-1, 51, 49-2. 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	536	6	1.12%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2026	Second	Nonresident	92	2	2.17%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2026	First	Resident	699	135	19.31%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	19%
2026	First	Nonresident	219	15	6.85%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2025	Second	Resident	294	3	1.02%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2025	Second	Nonresident	55	1	1.82%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2025	First	Resident	570	134	23.51%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	24%
2025	First	Nonresident	127	16	12.60%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2024	Second	Resident	60	1	1.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2024	Second	Nonresident	9	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2024	First	Resident	254	18	7.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2024	First	Nonresident	30	2	6.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2023	First	Resident	267	19	7.12%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2023	First	Nonresident	46	1	2.17%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2022	First	Resident	139	18	12.95%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2022	First	Nonresident	44	2	4.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2021	Second	Resident	191	2	1.05%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2021	Second	Nonresident	42	1	2.38%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2021	First	Resident	151	18	11.92%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2021	First	Nonresident	33	2	6.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2020	Second	Resident	173	2	1.16%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2020	Second	Nonresident	33	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	First	Resident	572	113	19.76%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2020	First	Nonresident	120	12	10.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2019	Second	Resident	237	3	1.27%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2019	Second	Nonresident	46	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	First	Resident	533	113	21.20%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	21%
2019	First	Nonresident	138	12	8.70%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2018	Second	Resident	305	1	0.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	Second	Nonresident	75	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	930	45	4.84%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2018	First	Nonresident	199	5	2.51%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2017	Second	Resident	305	1	0.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	Second	Nonresident	137	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	681	45	6.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2017	First	Nonresident	279	5	1.79%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2016	Second	Resident	184	3	1.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2016	Second	Nonresident	22	1	4.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2016	First	Resident	509	104	20.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2016	First	Nonresident	77	11	14.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2015	Second	Resident	62	1	1.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2015	Second	Nonresident	5	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	First	Resident	434	104	23.96%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	24%
2015	First	Nonresident	73	11	15.07%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2014	Second	Resident	318	2	0.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2014	Second	Nonresident	29	1	3.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2014	First	Resident	1,323	189	14.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2014	First	Nonresident	145	11	7.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2013	Second	Resident	312	3	0.96%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2013	Second	Nonresident	23	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	1,197	181	15.12%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2013	First	Nonresident	91	19	20.88%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	21%
2012	Second	Resident	153	2	1.31%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2012	Second	Nonresident	19	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	803	137	17.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2012	First	Nonresident	88	13	14.77%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2011	Second	Resident	59	1	1.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2011	Second	Nonresident	5	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	798	140	17.54%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2011	First	Nonresident	59	10	16.95%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2010	Second	Resident	144	3	2.08%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2010	Second	Nonresident	19	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	First	Resident	584	68	11.64%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2010	First	Nonresident	47	7	14.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2009	First	Resident	257	25	9.73%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2009	First	Nonresident	13	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	245	24	9.80%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2008	First	Nonresident	9	1	11.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2007	First	Resident	260	23	8.85%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2007	First	Nonresident	26	2	7.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2006	Second	Resident	37	1	2.70%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2006	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	First	Resident	303	33	10.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2006	First	Nonresident	8	2	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2005	Second	Resident	442	10	2.26%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2005	Second	Nonresident	47	3	6.38%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2005	First	Resident	887	203	22.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2005	First	Nonresident	139	22	15.83%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2004	Second	Resident	388	7	1.80%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2004	Second	Nonresident	35	3	8.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2004	First	Resident	879	203	23.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2004	First	Nonresident	110	22	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2003	First	Resident	779	203	26.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	26%
2003	First	Nonresident	98	22	22.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	22%
2002	First	Resident	1,018	294	28.88%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
2002	First	Nonresident	107	22	20.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2001	First	Resident	1,194	294	24.62%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	24%
2001	First	Nonresident	127	22	17.32%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2000	First	Resident	1,107	294	26.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	26%
2000	First	Nonresident	163	22	13.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
1999	First	Resident	1,154	113	9.79%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
1999	First	Nonresident	168	9	5.36%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
1998	First	Resident	995	225	22.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	22%
1998	First	Nonresident	124	25	20.16%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%

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 6 different area labels for elk hunt 2027 across the seasons it published (46-2, 48, 49, 49-2, 50-1, 51). 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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2023 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2017 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2015 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2011 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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2009 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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2004 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.