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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2059

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 75 permits on hunt 2059 in 2026 and issued 75 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 199 hunters put it first and 75 drew, 37.69%.

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	21A	4	61	4	6.56%	4	0	4
2026	First	21A	75	199	75	37.69%	67	0	75
2025	Second	21A	7	75	7	9.33%	9	0	7
2025	First	21A	75	168	75	44.64%	44	0	75
2024	Second	22-1	9	112	9	8.04%	52	0	9
2024	First	22-1	200	571	200	35.03%	308	0	200
2023	Second	22-1	5	89	5	5.62%	41	0	5
2023	First	22-1	200	536	200	37.31%	304	0	200
2022	Second	11A	7	23	7	30.43%	8	0	7
2022	First	11A	150	131	131	100.00%	70	19	150
2021	Second	11A	9	31	9	29.03%	7	0	9
2021	First	11A	150	154	150	97.40%	75	0	150
2020	Second	11A	9	45	9	20.00%	19	0	9
2020	First	11A	150	148	148	100.00%	71	2	150
2019	Second	11A	12	43	12	27.91%	6	0	12
2019	First	11A	150	140	140	100.00%	72	10	150
2018	Second	10A-1	1	8	1	12.50%	0	0	1
2018	First	10A-1	25	105	25	23.81%	94	0	25
2017	First	10A-1	25	109	25	22.94%	110	0	25
2016	Second	13	67	38	38	100.00%	54	29	67
2016	First	13	250	45	45	100.00%	405	165	210
2015	Second	13	57	63	57	90.48%	48	0	57
2015	First	13	250	53	53	100.00%	387	159	212
2014	First	14-2*	100	283	100	35.34%	62	0	100
2013	Second	16	4	27	4	14.81%	9	0	4
2013	First	16	50	112	50	44.64%	45	0	50
2012	Second	22-1	22	66	22	33.33%	31	0	22
2012	First	22-1	400	352	352	100.00%	178	48	400
2011	Second	19A	1	8	1	12.50%	0	0	1
2011	First	19A	25	29	25	86.21%	18	0	25
2010	Second	22-1	6	55	6	10.91%	19	0	6
2010	First	22-1	100	253	100	39.53%	150	0	100
2009	Second	23-2	10	17	10	58.82%	11	0	10
2009	First	23-2	100	102	100	98.04%	100	0	100
2008	Second	22-3	4	38	4	10.53%	12	0	4
2008	First	22-3	100	322	100	31.06%	183	0	100
2007	Second	22-3	7	62	7	11.29%	26	0	7
2007	First	22-3	100	351	100	28.49%	197	0	100
2006	First	22-2	100	114	100	87.72%	39	0	100
2005	Second	22-2	5	25	5	20.00%	10	0	5
2005	First	22-2	100	150	100	66.67%	49	0	100
2004	Second	22-3	4	34	4	11.76%	17	0	4
2004	First	22-3	100	346	100	28.90%	205	0	100
2003	First	23-2	100	128	100	78.13%	104	0	100
2002	First	23-3	100	23	23	100.00%	33	16	39
2001	First	23-2	125	208	125	60.10%	105	0	125
2000	First	23-2	150	184	150	81.52%	103	0	150
1999	First	16-2	150	15	15	100.00%	50	2	17
1998	First	15-2	250	242	242	100.00%	164	8	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 21A, 22-1, 11A, 10A-1, 13, 14-2*, 16, 19A, 23-2, 22-3, 22-2, 23-3, 16-2, 15-2. 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	52	4	7.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2026	Second	Nonresident	9	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2026	First	Resident	158	68	43.04%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	43%
2026	First	Nonresident	41	7	17.07%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2025	Second	Resident	72	7	9.72%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2025	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	First	Resident	154	68	44.16%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
2025	First	Nonresident	14	7	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2024	Second	Resident	109	8	7.34%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2024	Second	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2024	First	Resident	550	195	35.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	35%
2024	First	Nonresident	21	5	23.81%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	24%
2023	Second	Resident	88	5	5.68%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2023	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	517	195	37.72%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2023	First	Nonresident	19	5	26.32%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	26%
2022	Second	Resident	23	7	30.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	30%
2022	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	129	129	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2022	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2021	Second	Resident	30	8	26.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	27%
2021	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2021	First	Resident	153	149	97.39%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	97%
2021	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2020	Second	Resident	41	8	19.51%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2020	Second	Nonresident	4	1	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2020	First	Resident	144	144	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2020	First	Nonresident	4	4	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2019	Second	Resident	36	9	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2019	Second	Nonresident	7	3	42.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	43%
2019	First	Resident	137	137	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2019	First	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2018	Second	Resident	8	1	12.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2018	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	104	25	24.04%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	24%
2018	First	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	109	25	22.94%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2017	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	Second	Resident	33	53	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	Second	Nonresident	5	14	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	First	Resident	36	185	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	First	Nonresident	9	25	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	Second	Resident	54	50	92.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	93%
2015	Second	Nonresident	9	7	77.78%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	78%
2015	First	Resident	45	187	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	First	Nonresident	8	25	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	First	Resident	278	98	35.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	35%
2014	First	Nonresident	5	2	40.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2013	Second	Resident	27	4	14.81%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2013	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	111	50	45.05%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	45%
2013	First	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	Second	Resident	66	22	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2012	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	344	391	—	both draw choices	100%
2012	First	Nonresident	8	9	—	both draw choices	100%
2011	Second	Resident	5	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	Second	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2011	First	Resident	26	23	88.46%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	88%
2011	First	Nonresident	3	2	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2010	Second	Resident	50	5	10.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2010	Second	Nonresident	5	1	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2010	First	Resident	244	96	39.34%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	39%
2010	First	Nonresident	9	4	44.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
2009	Second	Resident	16	9	56.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	56%
2009	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2009	First	Resident	99	97	97.98%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	98%
2009	First	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2008	Second	Resident	38	4	10.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2008	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	320	98	30.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	31%
2008	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2007	Second	Resident	61	7	11.48%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2007	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2007	First	Resident	344	97	28.20%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
2007	First	Nonresident	7	3	42.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	43%
2006	First	Resident	113	99	87.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	88%
2006	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2005	Second	Resident	25	5	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2005	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2005	First	Resident	148	99	66.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2005	First	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2004	Second	Resident	34	4	11.76%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2004	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2004	First	Resident	346	100	28.90%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
2004	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2003	First	Resident	127	99	77.95%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	78%
2003	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2002	First	Resident	23	38	—	both draw choices	100%
2002	First	Nonresident	0	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2001	First	Resident	203	121	59.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	59%
2001	First	Nonresident	5	4	80.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	80%
2000	First	Resident	182	148	81.32%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	81%
2000	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
1999	First	Resident	14	16	—	both draw choices	100%
1999	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
1998	First	Resident	230	237	—	both draw choices	100%
1998	First	Nonresident	12	13	—	both draw choices	100%

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 2059 across the seasons it published (10A-1, 11A, 13, 14-2*, 15-2, 16, 16-2, 19A, 21A, 22-1, 22-2, 22-3, 23-2, 23-3). 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-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-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.