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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2086

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 2086 in 2026 and issued 75 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 188 hunters put it first and 75 drew, 39.89%.

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	46	1	48	1	2.08%	20	0	1
2026	First	46	75	188	75	39.89%	190	0	75
2025	Second	46	5	70	5	7.14%	61	0	5
2025	First	46	75	196	75	38.27%	217	0	75
2024	Second	48-1	18	64	18	28.13%	26	0	18
2024	First	48-1	250	314	250	79.62%	194	0	250
2023	Second	48-1	11	93	11	11.83%	40	0	11
2023	First	48-1	250	306	250	81.70%	197	0	250
2022	Second	39-2	16	258	16	6.20%	227	0	16
2022	First	39-2	500	958	500	52.19%	752	0	500
2021	Second	39-2	16	257	16	6.23%	155	0	16
2021	First	39-2	500	939	500	53.25%	669	0	500
2020	Second	37A	13	17	13	76.47%	26	0	13
2020	First	37A	90	57	57	100.00%	103	33	90
2019	Second	37A	9	14	9	64.29%	11	0	9
2019	First	37A	90	47	47	100.00%	77	43	90
2018	Second	29	3	15	3	20.00%	17	0	3
2018	First	29	70	127	70	55.12%	121	0	70
2017	Second	29	9	26	9	34.62%	22	0	9
2017	First	29	70	109	70	64.22%	132	0	70
2016	Second	32-1	82	36	36	100.00%	15	15	51
2016	First	32-1	150	48	48	100.00%	95	36	84
2015	Second	32-1	94	11	11	100.00%	21	16	27
2015	First	32-1	150	50	50	100.00%	71	16	66
2014	Second	32A-1	19	91	19	20.88%	62	0	19
2014	First	32A-1	250	364	250	68.68%	295	0	250
2013	Second	32A-2	2	10	2	20.00%	9	0	2
2013	First	32A-2	50	54	50	92.59%	83	0	50
2012	Second	36B	4	4	4	100.00%	7	0	4
2012	First	36B	20	13	13	100.00%	23	7	20
2011	Second	37	6	50	6	12.00%	20	0	6
2011	First	37	60	113	60	53.10%	139	0	60
2010	Second	39-1	15	498	15	3.01%	123	0	15
2010	First	39-1	400	1,771	400	22.59%	813	0	400
2009	Second	39-2	17	232	17	7.33%	130	0	17
2009	First	39-2	400	987	400	40.53%	667	0	400
2008	Second	36A-2*	6	31	6	19.35%	11	0	6
2008	First	36A-2*	100	91	91	100.00%	168	9	100
2007	Second	36A-2*	44	24	24	100.00%	36	20	44
2007	First	36A-2*	200	78	78	100.00%	149	94	172
2006	Second	36A-1	23	18	18	100.00%	7	5	23
2006	First	36A-1	150	109	109	100.00%	103	40	149
2005	Second	36A-2*	31	32	31	96.88%	25	0	31
2005	First	36A-2*	200	123	123	100.00%	212	69	192
2004	Second	36A-2	123	44	44	100.00%	32	15	59
2004	First	36A-2	250	72	72	100.00%	174	63	135
2003	First	37	50	66	50	75.76%	83	0	50
2002	First	39-1	500	272	272	100.00%	211	119	391
2001	First	39-1	300	314	300	95.54%	155	0	300
2000	First	39-2	100	773	100	12.94%	378	0	100
1999	First	32A-3	100	499	100	20.04%	264	0	100
1998	First	32-5	100	114	100	87.72%	100	0	100

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 46, 48-1, 39-2, 37A, 29, 32-1, 32A-1, 32A-2, 36B, 37, 39-1, 36A-2*, 36A-1, 36A-2, 32A-3, 32-5. 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	48	1	2.08%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2026	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2026	First	Resident	181	71	39.23%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	39%
2026	First	Nonresident	7	4	57.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2025	Second	Resident	63	5	7.94%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2025	Second	Nonresident	7	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	First	Resident	184	73	39.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2025	First	Nonresident	12	2	16.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	17%
2024	Second	Resident	62	17	27.42%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	27%
2024	Second	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2024	First	Resident	286	228	79.72%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	80%
2024	First	Nonresident	28	22	78.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	79%
2023	Second	Resident	84	11	13.10%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2023	Second	Nonresident	9	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	288	233	80.90%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	81%
2023	First	Nonresident	18	17	94.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	94%
2022	Second	Resident	255	16	6.27%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2022	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	945	493	52.17%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	52%
2022	First	Nonresident	13	7	53.85%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	54%
2021	Second	Resident	255	16	6.27%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2021	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	927	492	53.07%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	53%
2021	First	Nonresident	12	8	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2020	Second	Resident	16	12	75.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	75%
2020	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2020	First	Resident	50	50	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2020	First	Nonresident	7	7	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2019	Second	Resident	14	9	64.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	64%
2019	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	First	Resident	40	40	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2019	First	Nonresident	7	7	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2018	Second	Resident	15	3	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2018	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	119	64	53.78%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	54%
2018	First	Nonresident	8	6	75.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	75%
2017	Second	Resident	26	9	34.62%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	35%
2017	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	102	64	62.75%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	63%
2017	First	Nonresident	7	6	85.71%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	86%
2016	Second	Resident	36	51	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2016	First	Resident	46	81	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	First	Nonresident	2	3	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	Second	Resident	11	27	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2015	First	Resident	49	65	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	Second	Resident	90	19	21.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	21%
2014	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2014	First	Resident	345	235	68.12%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	68%
2014	First	Nonresident	19	15	78.95%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	79%
2013	Second	Resident	10	2	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2013	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	52	50	96.15%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	96%
2013	First	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	Second	Resident	4	4	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2012	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	13	20	—	both draw choices	100%
2012	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2011	Second	Resident	50	6	12.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2011	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	113	60	53.10%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	53%
2011	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	Second	Resident	491	15	3.05%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2010	Second	Nonresident	7	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	First	Resident	1,738	396	22.78%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2010	First	Nonresident	33	4	12.12%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2009	Second	Resident	231	17	7.36%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2009	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	971	393	40.47%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2009	First	Nonresident	16	7	43.75%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
2008	Second	Resident	30	6	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2008	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	87	96	—	both draw choices	100%
2008	First	Nonresident	4	4	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Resident	20	40	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Nonresident	4	4	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	First	Resident	62	152	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	First	Nonresident	16	20	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	Second	Resident	17	22	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	Second	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	First	Resident	100	140	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	First	Nonresident	9	9	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	Second	Resident	29	28	96.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	97%
2005	Second	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2005	First	Resident	109	175	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	First	Nonresident	14	17	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	Second	Resident	41	55	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	Second	Nonresident	3	4	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	First	Resident	72	133	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	First	Nonresident	0	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2003	First	Resident	61	46	75.41%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	75%
2003	First	Nonresident	5	4	80.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	80%
2002	First	Resident	269	384	—	both draw choices	100%
2002	First	Nonresident	3	7	—	both draw choices	100%
2001	First	Resident	313	299	95.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	95%
2001	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2000	First	Resident	763	98	12.84%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2000	First	Nonresident	10	2	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
1999	First	Resident	496	98	19.76%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	19%
1999	First	Nonresident	3	2	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	66%
1998	First	Resident	113	99	87.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	87%
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 16 different area labels for elk hunt 2086 across the seasons it published (29, 32-1, 32-5, 32A-1, 32A-2, 32A-3, 36A-1, 36A-2, 36A-2*, 36B, 37, 37A, 39-1, 39-2, 46, 48-1). 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-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-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.