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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2035

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 20 permits on hunt 2035 in 2026 and issued 20 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 3,342 hunters put it first and 20 drew, 0.60%.

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	First	54	20	3,342	20	0.60%	1,287	20
2025	Second	54	1	1,017	1	0.10%	234	1
2025	First	54	20	3,012	20	0.66%	1,224	20
2024	Second	55-1	2	341	2	0.59%	120	2
2024	First	55-1	50	1,257	50	3.98%	485	50
2023	First	55-1	50	1,164	50	4.30%	480	50
2022	Second	52	7	37	7	18.92%	36	7
2022	First	52	50	102	50	49.02%	107	50
2021	Second	52	3	33	3	9.09%	22	3
2021	First	52	50	131	50	38.17%	104	50
2020	First	52	50	283	50	17.67%	238	50
2019	First	52	50	260	50	19.23%	217	50
2018	Second	51	1	86	1	1.16%	19	1
2018	First	51	125	808	125	15.47%	298	125
2017	Second	51	2	214	2	0.93%	29	2
2017	First	51	125	722	125	17.31%	300	125
2016	First	54	10	1,005	10	1.00%	566	10
2015	First	54	10	993	10	1.01%	539	10
2014	Second	58-1*	1	118	1	0.85%	35	1
2014	First	58-1*	75	1,016	75	7.38%	461	75
2013	Second	60-1*	1	62	1	1.61%	16	1
2013	First	60-1*	30	468	30	6.41%	182	30
2012	Second	60-1*	1	87	1	1.15%	25	1
2012	First	60-1*	30	464	30	6.47%	188	30
2011	Second	60-1*	2	164	2	1.22%	40	2
2011	First	60-1*	30	399	30	7.52%	165	30
2010	Second	60-2*	5	191	5	2.62%	65	5
2010	First	60-2*	100	811	100	12.33%	504	100
2009	Second	61	2	33	2	6.06%	29	2
2009	First	61	50	118	50	42.37%	131	50
2008	Second	61	1	5	1	20.00%	22	1
2008	First	61	50	116	50	43.10%	135	50
2007	Second	61	6	84	6	7.14%	29	6
2007	First	61	100	213	100	46.95%	154	100
2006	Second	61	10	82	10	12.20%	41	10
2006	First	61	100	159	100	62.89%	227	100
2005	Second	60-1*	2	81	2	2.47%	41	2
2005	First	60-1*	50	595	50	8.40%	242	50
2004	First	60-1	50	576	50	8.68%	261	50
2003	First	60-1	50	468	50	10.68%	201	50
2002	First	60-1	50	576	50	8.68%	285	50
2001	First	60-2	150	693	150	21.65%	339	150
2000	First	60-2	100	593	100	16.86%	288	100
1999	First	60A-1	50	827	50	6.05%	423	50
1998	First	60-1	30	312	30	9.62%	145	30

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 54, 55-1, 52, 51, 58-1*, 60-1*, 60-2*, 61, 60-1, 60-2, 60A-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	First	Resident	2,476	18	0.73%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2026	First	Nonresident	866	2	0.23%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	Second	Resident	805	1	0.12%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	Second	Nonresident	212	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	First	Resident	2,355	18	0.76%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2025	First	Nonresident	657	2	0.30%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2024	Second	Resident	284	2	0.70%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2024	Second	Nonresident	57	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2024	First	Resident	1,043	45	4.31%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2024	First	Nonresident	214	5	2.34%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2023	First	Resident	946	45	4.76%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2023	First	Nonresident	218	5	2.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2022	Second	Resident	32	4	12.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2022	Second	Nonresident	5	3	60.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	60%
2022	First	Resident	63	45	71.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	71%
2022	First	Nonresident	39	5	12.82%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2021	Second	Resident	33	3	9.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2021	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	103	45	43.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
2021	First	Nonresident	28	5	17.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2020	First	Resident	254	45	17.72%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2020	First	Nonresident	29	5	17.24%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2019	First	Resident	228	48	21.05%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	21%
2019	First	Nonresident	32	2	6.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2018	Second	Resident	76	1	1.32%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2018	Second	Nonresident	10	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	701	113	16.12%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2018	First	Nonresident	107	12	11.21%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2017	Second	Resident	189	2	1.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2017	Second	Nonresident	25	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	652	113	17.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2017	First	Nonresident	70	12	17.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2016	First	Resident	846	9	1.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2016	First	Nonresident	159	1	0.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2015	First	Resident	879	9	1.02%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2015	First	Nonresident	114	1	0.88%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2014	Second	Resident	110	1	0.91%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2014	Second	Nonresident	8	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2014	First	Resident	985	72	7.31%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2014	First	Nonresident	31	3	9.68%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2013	Second	Resident	59	1	1.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2013	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	443	27	6.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2013	First	Nonresident	25	3	12.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2012	Second	Resident	82	1	1.22%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2012	Second	Nonresident	5	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	443	28	6.32%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2012	First	Nonresident	21	2	9.52%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2011	Second	Resident	157	2	1.27%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2011	Second	Nonresident	7	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	383	29	7.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2011	First	Nonresident	16	1	6.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2010	Second	Resident	181	4	2.21%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2010	Second	Nonresident	10	1	10.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2010	First	Resident	790	94	11.90%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2010	First	Nonresident	21	6	28.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2009	Second	Resident	31	2	6.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2009	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	107	46	42.99%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	43%
2009	First	Nonresident	11	4	36.36%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	36%
2008	Second	Resident	4	1	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2008	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	105	45	42.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	43%
2008	First	Nonresident	11	5	45.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	45%
2007	Second	Resident	78	6	7.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2007	Second	Nonresident	6	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2007	First	Resident	174	90	51.72%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	52%
2007	First	Nonresident	39	10	25.64%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	26%
2006	Second	Resident	76	7	9.21%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2006	Second	Nonresident	6	3	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2006	First	Resident	136	90	66.18%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	66%
2006	First	Nonresident	23	10	43.48%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	43%
2005	Second	Resident	74	2	2.70%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2005	Second	Nonresident	7	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2005	First	Resident	547	45	8.23%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2005	First	Nonresident	48	5	10.42%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2004	First	Resident	534	46	8.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2004	First	Nonresident	42	4	9.52%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2003	First	Resident	431	47	10.90%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2003	First	Nonresident	37	3	8.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2002	First	Resident	498	45	9.04%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2002	First	Nonresident	78	5	6.41%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2001	First	Resident	657	146	22.22%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	22%
2001	First	Nonresident	36	4	11.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2000	First	Resident	586	100	17.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2000	First	Nonresident	7	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
1999	First	Resident	796	46	5.78%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
1999	First	Nonresident	31	4	12.90%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
1998	First	Resident	288	27	9.38%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
1998	First	Nonresident	24	3	12.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%

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 11 different area labels for elk hunt 2035 across the seasons it published (51, 52, 54, 55-1, 58-1*, 60-1, 60-1*, 60-2, 60-2*, 60A-1, 61). 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-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-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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2020 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-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-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-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-draw2.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2007 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.