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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2073

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 2073 in 2026 and issued 150 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 204 hunters put it first and 150 drew, 73.53%.

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 28 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	31	10	59	10	16.95%	21	0	10
2026	First	31	150	204	150	73.53%	154	0	150
2025	Second	31	12	42	12	28.57%	31	0	12
2025	First	31	150	208	150	72.12%	216	0	150
2024	Second	32A-1	13	48	13	27.08%	27	0	13
2024	First	32A-1	50	158	50	31.65%	123	0	50
2023	Second	32A-1	5	46	5	10.87%	18	0	5
2023	First	32A-1	50	150	50	33.33%	148	0	50
2022	Second	24-2	4	26	4	15.38%	6	0	4
2022	First	24-2	75	138	75	54.35%	56	0	75
2021	Second	24-2	1	10	1	10.00%	7	0	1
2021	First	24-2	75	132	75	56.82%	49	0	75
2020	Second	24-2	2	19	2	10.53%	15	0	2
2020	First	24-2	75	172	75	43.60%	67	0	75
2019	Second	24-2	3	32	3	9.38%	7	0	3
2019	First	24-2	75	174	75	43.10%	69	0	75
2018	Second	21A-1	14	31	14	45.16%	6	0	14
2018	First	21A-1	200	222	200	90.09%	59	0	200
2017	Second	21A-1	6	28	6	21.43%	3	0	6
2017	First	21A-1	200	212	200	94.34%	57	0	200
2016	First	23-1	30	126	30	23.81%	106	0	30
2015	Second	23-1	2	20	2	10.00%	14	0	2
2015	First	23-1	30	97	30	30.93%	77	0	30
2014	Second	23-4*	17	10	10	100.00%	4	4	14
2014	First	23-4*	40	7	7	100.00%	34	22	29
2013	Second	23-4	1	13	1	7.69%	7	0	1
2013	First	23-4	25	87	25	28.74%	36	0	25
2012	Second	29	6	41	6	14.63%	34	0	6
2012	First	29	70	176	70	39.77%	196	0	70
2011	Second	25	2	44	2	4.55%	5	0	2
2011	First	25	25	137	25	18.25%	49	0	25
2010	First	31-2	50	149	50	33.56%	104	0	50
2009	Second	32-1	57	26	26	100.00%	6	4	30
2009	First	32-1	100	33	33	100.00%	47	15	48
2008	Second	31-2	5	44	5	11.36%	2	0	5
2008	First	31-2	50	126	50	39.68%	83	0	50
2007	Second	31-2	3	18	3	16.67%	6	0	3
2007	First	31-2	50	78	50	64.10%	81	0	50
2005	Second	31-2	1	6	1	16.67%	9	0	1
2005	First	31-2	50	123	50	40.65%	167	0	50
2004	Second	32-1	46	6	6	100.00%	6	4	10
2004	First	32-1	100	46	46	100.00%	43	9	55
2003	First	32-1	200	125	125	100.00%	131	75	200
2002	First	32-2	400	0	0	—	0	0	0
2001	First	32	200	343	200	58.31%	201	0	200
2000	First	32-1	200	206	200	97.09%	178	0	200
1999	First	24-2	150	301	150	49.83%	194	0	150
1998	First	24-2	50	78	50	64.10%	70	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 31, 32A-1, 24-2, 21A-1, 23-1, 23-4*, 23-4, 29, 25, 31-2, 32-1, 32-2, 32. 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	56	9	16.07%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2026	Second	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2026	First	Resident	189	139	73.54%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	74%
2026	First	Nonresident	15	11	73.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	73%
2025	Second	Resident	42	12	28.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2025	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	First	Resident	190	138	72.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	73%
2025	First	Nonresident	18	12	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2024	Second	Resident	44	13	29.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	30%
2024	Second	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2024	First	Resident	153	48	31.37%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	31%
2024	First	Nonresident	5	2	40.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2023	Second	Resident	46	5	10.87%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2023	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	150	50	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2023	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	Second	Resident	25	4	16.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2022	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	137	75	54.74%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	55%
2022	First	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	Second	Resident	10	1	10.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2021	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	130	74	56.92%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2021	First	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2020	Second	Resident	19	2	10.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2020	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	First	Resident	171	75	43.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
2020	First	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	Second	Resident	32	3	9.38%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2019	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	First	Resident	171	73	42.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	43%
2019	First	Nonresident	3	2	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2018	Second	Resident	27	12	44.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
2018	Second	Nonresident	4	2	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2018	First	Resident	196	180	91.84%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	92%
2018	First	Nonresident	26	20	76.92%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	77%
2017	Second	Resident	25	5	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2017	Second	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2017	First	Resident	184	180	97.83%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	98%
2017	First	Nonresident	28	20	71.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	71%
2016	First	Resident	122	29	23.77%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	24%
2016	First	Nonresident	4	1	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2015	Second	Resident	19	2	10.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2015	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	First	Resident	92	28	30.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	30%
2015	First	Nonresident	5	2	40.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2014	Second	Resident	10	14	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2014	First	Resident	7	28	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	First	Nonresident	0	1	—	both draw choices	0%
2013	Second	Resident	13	1	7.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2013	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	86	24	27.91%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
2013	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2012	Second	Resident	38	6	15.79%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2012	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	171	70	40.94%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	41%
2012	First	Nonresident	5	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	Second	Resident	44	2	4.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2011	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	132	24	18.18%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2011	First	Nonresident	5	1	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2010	First	Resident	145	50	34.48%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	34%
2010	First	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	Second	Resident	26	30	—	both draw choices	100%
2009	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2009	First	Resident	33	48	—	both draw choices	100%
2009	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2008	Second	Resident	41	5	12.20%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2008	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	125	50	40.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2008	First	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2007	Second	Resident	18	3	16.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2007	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2007	First	Resident	77	50	64.94%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	65%
2007	First	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2005	Second	Resident	6	1	16.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2005	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2005	First	Resident	122	50	40.98%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	41%
2005	First	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2004	Second	Resident	6	10	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	First	Resident	46	55	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	100%
2003	First	Resident	125	199	—	both draw choices	100%
2003	First	Nonresident	0	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2002	First	Resident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2002	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2001	First	Resident	340	197	57.94%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2001	First	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2000	First	Resident	200	194	97.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	97%
2000	First	Nonresident	6	6	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
1999	First	Resident	298	147	49.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	49%
1999	First	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
1998	First	Resident	77	49	63.64%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	63%
1998	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	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 13 different area labels for elk hunt 2073 across the seasons it published (21A-1, 23-1, 23-4, 23-4*, 24-2, 25, 29, 31, 31-2, 32, 32-1, 32-2, 32A-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-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-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/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.