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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2104

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 2104 in 2026 and issued 60 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 84 hunters put it first and 60 drew, 71.43%.

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	66A	6	20	6	30.00%	19	0	6
2026	First	66A	60	84	60	71.43%	76	0	60
2025	Second	66A	6	17	6	35.29%	15	0	6
2025	First	66A	60	71	60	84.51%	48	0	60
2024	Second	76	58	204	58	28.43%	69	0	58
2024	First	76	700	851	700	82.26%	397	0	700
2023	Second	76	28	175	28	16.00%	53	0	28
2023	First	76	700	842	700	83.14%	351	0	700
2022	Second	62-1	1	15	1	6.67%	8	0	1
2022	First	62-1	100	156	100	64.10%	128	0	100
2021	Second	62-1	5	16	5	31.25%	9	0	5
2021	First	62-1	100	106	100	94.34%	93	0	100
2020	Second	55-2	5	7	5	71.43%	13	0	5
2020	First	55-2	50	54	50	92.59%	157	0	50
2019	Second	55-2	8	15	8	53.33%	11	0	8
2019	First	55-2	50	73	50	68.49%	137	0	50
2018	Second	39-1	23	592	23	3.89%	189	0	23
2018	First	39-1	550	1,697	550	32.41%	858	0	550
2017	Second	39-1	23	616	23	3.73%	139	0	23
2017	First	39-1	550	1,906	550	28.86%	791	0	550
2016	Second	41-1	3	95	3	3.16%	8	0	3
2016	First	41-1	35	64	35	54.69%	68	0	35
2015	Second	41-1	1	14	1	7.14%	12	0	1
2015	First	41-1	35	49	35	71.43%	80	0	35
2014	First	46*	25	97	25	25.77%	70	0	25
2013	First	46*	20	43	20	46.51%	74	0	20
2012	Second	49	10	200	10	5.00%	83	0	10
2012	First	49	125	413	125	30.27%	433	0	125
2011	Second	50-3	22	50	22	44.00%	45	0	22
2011	First	50-3	100	36	36	100.00%	94	57	93
2010	Second	59*	7	115	7	6.09%	32	0	7
2010	First	59*	200	581	200	34.42%	350	0	200
2009	Second	59*	4	104	4	3.85%	50	0	4
2009	First	59*	150	482	150	31.12%	310	0	150
2008	Second	51	14	54	14	25.93%	36	0	14
2008	First	51	150	132	132	100.00%	237	18	150
2007	Second	50-2	63	33	33	100.00%	50	28	61
2007	First	50-2	200	79	79	100.00%	176	81	160
2006	Second	50-2	93	21	21	100.00%	54	27	48
2006	First	50-2	200	70	70	100.00%	160	53	123
2005	Second	51	97	40	40	100.00%	38	26	66
2005	First	51	350	146	146	100.00%	224	122	268
2004	Second	50-2	139	44	44	100.00%	55	32	76
2004	First	50-2	400	129	129	100.00%	307	160	289
2003	First	51	350	132	132	100.00%	215	117	249
2002	First	52A	150	249	150	60.24%	242	0	150
2001	First	51-2	500	162	162	100.00%	388	222	384
2000	First	52A	150	238	150	63.03%	219	0	150
1999	First	43-5	300	197	197	100.00%	453	103	300
1998	First	40-4	125	148	125	84.46%	127	0	125

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 66A, 76, 62-1, 55-2, 39-1, 41-1, 46*, 49, 50-3, 59*, 51, 50-2, 52A, 51-2, 43-5, 40-4. 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	20	6	30.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	30%
2026	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2026	First	Resident	64	54	84.38%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	84%
2026	First	Nonresident	20	6	30.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	30%
2025	Second	Resident	14	4	28.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2025	Second	Nonresident	3	2	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2025	First	Resident	60	54	90.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	90%
2025	First	Nonresident	11	6	54.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	55%
2024	Second	Resident	185	52	28.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
2024	Second	Nonresident	19	6	31.58%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	32%
2024	First	Resident	772	633	81.99%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	82%
2024	First	Nonresident	79	67	84.81%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	85%
2023	Second	Resident	161	25	15.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2023	Second	Nonresident	14	3	21.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	775	644	83.10%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	83%
2023	First	Nonresident	67	56	83.58%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	84%
2022	Second	Resident	14	1	7.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2022	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	152	98	64.47%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	64%
2022	First	Nonresident	4	2	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2021	Second	Resident	16	5	31.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	31%
2021	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	103	97	94.17%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	94%
2021	First	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2020	Second	Resident	7	5	71.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	71%
2020	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	First	Resident	52	48	92.31%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	92%
2020	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2019	Second	Resident	15	8	53.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	53%
2019	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	First	Resident	66	45	68.18%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	68%
2019	First	Nonresident	7	5	71.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	71%
2018	Second	Resident	564	22	3.90%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2018	Second	Nonresident	28	1	3.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2018	First	Resident	1,614	518	32.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	32%
2018	First	Nonresident	83	32	38.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	39%
2017	Second	Resident	587	23	3.92%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2017	Second	Nonresident	29	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	1,815	522	28.76%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2017	First	Nonresident	91	28	30.77%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	31%
2016	Second	Resident	92	3	3.26%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2016	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	First	Resident	64	35	54.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	55%
2016	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	Second	Resident	14	1	7.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2015	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	First	Resident	49	35	71.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	71%
2015	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2014	First	Resident	96	24	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2014	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2013	First	Resident	43	20	46.51%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	47%
2013	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	Second	Resident	200	10	5.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2012	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	405	120	29.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	30%
2012	First	Nonresident	8	5	62.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	62%
2011	Second	Resident	50	22	44.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
2011	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	35	92	—	both draw choices	100%
2011	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2010	Second	Resident	113	7	6.19%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2010	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	First	Resident	576	200	34.72%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	35%
2010	First	Nonresident	5	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	Second	Resident	103	4	3.88%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2009	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	476	147	30.88%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	31%
2009	First	Nonresident	6	3	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2008	Second	Resident	54	14	25.93%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	26%
2008	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	125	143	—	both draw choices	100%
2008	First	Nonresident	7	7	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Resident	30	58	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Nonresident	3	3	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	First	Resident	76	155	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	First	Nonresident	3	5	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	Second	Resident	21	48	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2006	First	Resident	67	120	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	First	Nonresident	3	3	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	Second	Resident	40	66	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2005	First	Resident	141	258	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	First	Nonresident	5	10	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	Second	Resident	44	76	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	First	Resident	128	285	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	First	Nonresident	1	4	—	both draw choices	100%
2003	First	Resident	126	239	—	both draw choices	100%
2003	First	Nonresident	6	10	—	both draw choices	100%
2002	First	Resident	249	150	60.24%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	60%
2002	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2001	First	Resident	159	363	—	both draw choices	100%
2001	First	Nonresident	3	21	—	both draw choices	100%
2000	First	Resident	238	150	63.03%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	63%
2000	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
1999	First	Resident	194	297	—	both draw choices	100%
1999	First	Nonresident	3	3	—	both draw choices	100%
1998	First	Resident	142	120	84.51%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	84%
1998	First	Nonresident	6	5	83.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	83%

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 2104 across the seasons it published (39-1, 40-4, 41-1, 43-5, 46*, 49, 50-2, 50-3, 51, 51-2, 52A, 55-2, 59*, 62-1, 66A, 76). 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-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.