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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2055

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 40 permits on hunt 2055 in 2026 and issued 40 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 76 hunters put it first and 40 drew, 52.63%.

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	Drew on second choice	Permits issued
2026	Second	16-1	5	27	5	18.52%	1	0	5
2026	First	16-1	40	76	40	52.63%	14	0	40
2025	Second	16-1	4	18	4	22.22%	0	0	4
2025	First	16-1	40	42	40	95.24%	13	0	40
2024	Second	18	23	74	23	31.08%	50	0	23
2024	First	18	150	224	150	66.96%	155	0	150
2023	Second	18	5	65	5	7.69%	22	0	5
2023	First	18	150	229	150	65.50%	146	0	150
2022	Second	6-1	3	120	3	2.50%	30	0	3
2022	First	6-1	30	242	30	12.40%	141	0	30
2021	Second	6-1	2	47	2	4.26%	37	0	2
2021	First	6-1	30	281	30	10.68%	124	0	30
2020	Second	5-1	4	180	4	2.22%	33	0	4
2020	First	5-1	100	668	100	14.97%	193	0	100
2019	Second	5-1	2	134	2	1.49%	15	0	2
2019	First	5-1	100	710	100	14.08%	178	0	100
2018	Second	5-1	11	240	11	4.58%	25	0	11
2018	First	5-1	300	783	300	38.31%	202	0	300
2017	Second	5-1	10	224	10	4.46%	12	0	10
2017	First	5-1	300	631	300	47.54%	119	0	300
2016	Second	11	10	44	10	22.73%	27	0	10
2016	First	11	200	155	155	100.00%	281	45	200
2015	Second	11	7	28	7	25.00%	44	0	7
2015	First	11	200	181	181	100.00%	309	19	200
2014	First	11-2*	125	40	40	100.00%	75	58	98
2013	Second	11A	14	28	14	50.00%	8	0	14
2013	First	11A	150	157	150	95.54%	44	0	150
2012	Second	14	4	74	4	5.41%	23	0	4
2012	First	14	75	267	75	28.09%	62	0	75
2011	Second	13	17	30	17	56.67%	57	0	17
2011	First	13	150	24	24	100.00%	381	126	150
2010	Second	18	9	28	9	32.14%	41	0	9
2010	First	18	150	139	139	100.00%	175	11	150
2009	Second	22-1	38	54	38	70.37%	31	0	38
2009	First	22-1	300	208	208	100.00%	261	61	269
2008	Second	22-1	28	38	28	73.68%	17	0	28
2008	First	22-1	400	353	353	100.00%	178	47	400
2007	Second	22-1	95	51	51	100.00%	15	12	63
2007	First	22-1	400	298	298	100.00%	144	52	350
2006	Second	21A	9	24	9	37.50%	20	0	9
2006	First	21A	150	142	142	100.00%	113	8	150
2005	Second	21A	71	27	27	100.00%	6	6	33
2005	First	21A	150	64	64	100.00%	59	22	86
2004	Second	22-1	17	30	17	56.67%	18	0	17
2004	First	22-1	400	402	400	99.50%	185	0	400
2003	First	22-1	300	104	104	100.00%	257	40	144
2002	First	22-2	100	145	100	68.97%	71	0	100
2001	First	22-1	400	305	305	100.00%	366	95	400
2000	First	22-1	400	288	288	100.00%	321	74	362
1999	First	14-4	100	89	89	100.00%	93	11	100
1998	First	14-2	50	115	50	43.48%	49	0	50

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 16-1, 18, 6-1, 5-1, 11, 11-2*, 11A, 14, 13, 22-1, 21A, 22-2, 14-4, 14-2. 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	27	5	18.52%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	19%
2026	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2026	First	Resident	75	39	52.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	52%
2026	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2025	Second	Resident	18	4	22.22%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	22%
2025	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	First	Resident	42	40	95.24%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	95%
2025	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2024	Second	Resident	68	19	27.94%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
2024	Second	Nonresident	6	4	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2024	First	Resident	207	138	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2024	First	Nonresident	17	12	70.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	71%
2023	Second	Resident	61	5	8.20%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2023	Second	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	217	147	67.74%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	68%
2023	First	Nonresident	12	3	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2022	Second	Resident	112	3	2.68%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2022	Second	Nonresident	8	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	220	27	12.27%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2022	First	Nonresident	22	3	13.64%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2021	Second	Resident	45	2	4.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2021	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	266	28	10.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2021	First	Nonresident	15	2	13.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2020	Second	Resident	172	4	2.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2020	Second	Nonresident	8	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	First	Resident	626	93	14.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2020	First	Nonresident	42	7	16.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2019	Second	Resident	125	2	1.60%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2019	Second	Nonresident	9	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	First	Resident	667	97	14.54%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2019	First	Nonresident	43	3	6.98%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2018	Second	Resident	219	11	5.02%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2018	Second	Nonresident	21	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	726	274	37.74%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2018	First	Nonresident	57	26	45.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	46%
2017	Second	Resident	212	10	4.72%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2017	Second	Nonresident	12	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	585	284	48.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	49%
2017	First	Nonresident	46	16	34.78%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	35%
2016	Second	Resident	43	9	20.93%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	21%
2016	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2016	First	Resident	143	182	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	First	Nonresident	12	18	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	Second	Resident	26	6	23.08%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2015	Second	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2015	First	Resident	171	189	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	First	Nonresident	10	11	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	First	Resident	37	93	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	First	Nonresident	3	5	—	both draw choices	100%
2013	Second	Resident	27	13	48.15%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	48%
2013	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2013	First	Resident	151	144	95.36%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	95%
2013	First	Nonresident	6	6	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2012	Second	Resident	71	4	5.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2012	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	264	74	28.03%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
2012	First	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2011	Second	Resident	25	13	52.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	52%
2011	Second	Nonresident	5	4	80.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	80%
2011	First	Resident	19	135	—	both draw choices	100%
2011	First	Nonresident	5	15	—	both draw choices	100%
2010	Second	Resident	27	9	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2010	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	First	Resident	134	145	—	both draw choices	100%
2010	First	Nonresident	5	5	—	both draw choices	100%
2009	Second	Resident	54	38	70.37%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	70%
2009	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	202	263	—	both draw choices	100%
2009	First	Nonresident	6	6	—	both draw choices	100%
2008	Second	Resident	35	27	77.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	77%
2008	Second	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2008	First	Resident	335	379	—	both draw choices	100%
2008	First	Nonresident	18	21	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Resident	50	62	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	First	Resident	290	337	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	First	Nonresident	8	13	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	Second	Resident	24	9	37.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2006	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	First	Resident	139	147	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	First	Nonresident	3	3	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	Second	Resident	27	33	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2005	First	Resident	63	84	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	First	Nonresident	1	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	Second	Resident	28	17	60.71%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	60%
2004	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2004	First	Resident	390	388	99.49%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	99%
2004	First	Nonresident	12	12	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2003	First	Resident	103	143	—	both draw choices	100%
2003	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2002	First	Resident	145	100	68.97%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	69%
2002	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2001	First	Resident	300	393	—	both draw choices	100%
2001	First	Nonresident	5	7	—	both draw choices	100%
2000	First	Resident	280	352	—	both draw choices	100%
2000	First	Nonresident	8	10	—	both draw choices	100%
1999	First	Resident	84	95	—	both draw choices	100%
1999	First	Nonresident	5	5	—	both draw choices	100%
1998	First	Resident	113	50	44.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
1998	First	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%

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.

At least one row here has hunters who applied and no rate. That is the case above, and the "what the permit count covers" column says which.

Where Idaho's own figures disagree with each other

IDFG printed 14 different area labels for elk hunt 2055 across the seasons it published (11, 11-2*, 11A, 13, 14, 14-2, 14-4, 16-1, 18, 21A, 22-1, 22-2, 5-1, 6-1). 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-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-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-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.