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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2078

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 60 permits on hunt 2078 in 2026 and issued 60 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 146 hunters put it first and 60 drew, 41.10%.

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	37	5	26	5	19.23%	32	0	5
2026	First	37	60	146	60	41.10%	114	0	60
2025	Second	37	2	12	2	16.67%	12	0	2
2025	First	37	60	93	60	64.52%	86	0	60
2024	Second	37A	3	6	3	50.00%	14	0	3
2024	First	37A	45	47	45	95.74%	99	0	45
2023	Second	37A	4	17	4	23.53%	6	0	4
2023	First	37A	45	35	35	100.00%	54	10	45
2022	Second	31	7	85	7	8.24%	71	0	7
2022	First	31	100	163	100	61.35%	197	0	100
2021	First	31	100	172	100	58.14%	194	0	100
2020	Second	31	1	15	1	6.67%	20	0	1
2020	First	31	125	247	125	50.61%	245	0	125
2019	Second	31	8	105	8	7.62%	34	0	8
2019	First	31	125	194	125	64.43%	269	0	125
2018	Second	23-2	38	11	11	100.00%	7	4	15
2018	First	23-2	75	27	27	100.00%	41	16	43
2017	Second	23-2	38	12	12	100.00%	9	8	20
2017	First	23-2	75	23	23	100.00%	33	17	40
2016	Second	24-1	4	72	4	5.56%	15	0	4
2016	First	24-1	150	312	150	48.08%	140	0	150
2015	Second	24-1	8	59	8	13.56%	19	0	8
2015	First	24-1	150	309	150	48.54%	140	0	150
2014	Second	30	7	99	7	7.07%	40	0	7
2014	First	30	160	345	160	46.38%	168	0	160
2013	Second	31-1	7	58	7	12.07%	27	0	7
2013	First	31-1	200	258	200	77.52%	152	0	200
2012	Second	32-1	14	56	14	25.00%	18	0	14
2012	First	32-1	200	267	200	74.91%	113	0	200
2011	Second	32-1	46	21	21	100.00%	10	8	29
2011	First	32-1	100	39	39	100.00%	69	32	71
2010	Second	32A	10	44	10	22.73%	46	0	10
2010	First	32A	200	280	200	71.43%	301	0	200
2009	Second	32A	4	92	4	4.35%	28	0	4
2009	First	32A	100	298	100	33.56%	277	0	100
2008	Second	32A	9	23	9	39.13%	25	0	9
2008	First	32A	200	222	200	90.09%	150	0	200
2007	Second	32A	19	24	19	79.17%	24	0	19
2007	First	32A	200	205	200	97.56%	127	0	200
2005	Second	32A	12	36	12	33.33%	41	0	12
2005	First	32A	200	225	200	88.89%	265	0	200
2004	Second	32A	5	69	5	7.25%	23	0	5
2004	First	32A	100	312	100	32.05%	252	0	100
2003	First	32A	100	524	100	19.08%	269	0	100
2002	First	36	200	275	200	72.73%	75	0	200
2001	First	36	200	260	200	76.92%	70	0	200
2000	First	36	200	258	200	77.52%	98	0	200
1999	First	30A-2	75	143	75	52.45%	156	0	75
1998	First	30-3	400	293	293	100.00%	340	107	400

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 37, 37A, 31, 23-2, 24-1, 30, 31-1, 32-1, 32A, 36, 30A-2, 30-3. 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	25	5	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2026	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2026	First	Resident	128	54	42.19%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	42%
2026	First	Nonresident	18	6	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2025	Second	Resident	9	2	22.22%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	22%
2025	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	First	Resident	83	54	65.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	65%
2025	First	Nonresident	10	6	60.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	60%
2024	Second	Resident	5	2	40.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2024	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2024	First	Resident	43	41	95.35%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	95%
2024	First	Nonresident	4	4	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2023	Second	Resident	16	3	18.75%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	19%
2023	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	35	35	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2023	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2022	Second	Resident	85	7	8.24%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2022	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	162	99	61.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	61%
2022	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2021	First	Resident	169	99	58.58%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	59%
2021	First	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2020	Second	Resident	14	1	7.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2020	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	First	Resident	235	117	49.79%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2020	First	Nonresident	12	8	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2019	Second	Resident	100	8	8.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2019	Second	Nonresident	5	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	First	Resident	188	122	64.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	65%
2019	First	Nonresident	6	3	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2018	Second	Resident	11	14	—	both draw choices	100%
2018	Second	Nonresident	0	1	—	both draw choices	0%
2018	First	Resident	26	42	—	both draw choices	100%
2018	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2017	Second	Resident	12	17	—	both draw choices	142%
2017	Second	Nonresident	0	3	—	both draw choices	0%
2017	First	Resident	23	39	—	both draw choices	100%
2017	First	Nonresident	0	1	—	both draw choices	0%
2016	Second	Resident	66	4	6.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2016	Second	Nonresident	6	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	First	Resident	298	146	48.99%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	49%
2016	First	Nonresident	14	4	28.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2015	Second	Resident	59	8	13.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2015	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	First	Resident	297	142	47.81%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	48%
2015	First	Nonresident	12	8	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2014	Second	Resident	99	7	7.07%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2014	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2014	First	Resident	334	154	46.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	46%
2014	First	Nonresident	11	6	54.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	55%
2013	Second	Resident	58	7	12.07%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2013	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	255	197	77.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	77%
2013	First	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2012	Second	Resident	56	14	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2012	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	267	200	74.91%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	75%
2012	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	Second	Resident	21	29	—	both draw choices	100%
2011	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2011	First	Resident	38	70	—	both draw choices	100%
2011	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2010	Second	Resident	44	10	22.73%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2010	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	First	Resident	273	195	71.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	71%
2010	First	Nonresident	7	5	71.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	71%
2009	Second	Resident	88	4	4.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2009	Second	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	288	100	34.72%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	35%
2009	First	Nonresident	10	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	Second	Resident	23	9	39.13%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	39%
2008	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	218	196	89.91%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	90%
2008	First	Nonresident	4	4	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2007	Second	Resident	24	19	79.17%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	79%
2007	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2007	First	Resident	196	191	97.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	97%
2007	First	Nonresident	9	9	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2005	Second	Resident	32	9	28.13%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
2005	Second	Nonresident	4	3	75.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	75%
2005	First	Resident	218	193	88.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	89%
2005	First	Nonresident	7	7	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2004	Second	Resident	64	5	7.81%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2004	Second	Nonresident	5	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2004	First	Resident	301	98	32.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	32%
2004	First	Nonresident	11	2	18.18%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2003	First	Resident	522	99	18.97%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	19%
2003	First	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2002	First	Resident	269	196	72.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	72%
2002	First	Nonresident	6	4	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	66%
2001	First	Resident	247	191	77.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	77%
2001	First	Nonresident	13	9	69.23%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	69%
2000	First	Resident	247	191	77.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	77%
2000	First	Nonresident	11	9	81.82%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	81%
1999	First	Resident	139	71	51.08%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	51%
1999	First	Nonresident	4	4	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
1998	First	Resident	282	386	—	both draw choices	100%
1998	First	Nonresident	11	14	—	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 12 different area labels for elk hunt 2078 across the seasons it published (23-2, 24-1, 30, 30-3, 30A-2, 31, 31-1, 32-1, 32A, 36, 37, 37A). 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-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-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.