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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2106

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 125 permits on hunt 2106 in 2026 and issued 125 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 151 hunters put it first and 125 drew, 82.78%.

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	68	9	76	9	11.84%	26	0	9
2026	First	68	125	151	125	82.78%	145	0	125
2025	Second	68	12	76	12	15.79%	35	0	12
2025	First	68	125	135	125	92.59%	225	0	125
2024	First	1-2	25	1,620	25	1.54%	444	0	25
2023	First	1-2	25	1,472	25	1.70%	356	0	25
2022	Second	66-2	31	106	31	29.25%	78	0	31
2022	First	66-2	400	312	312	100.00%	408	88	400
2021	Second	66-2	29	65	29	44.62%	62	0	29
2021	First	66-2	400	351	351	100.00%	375	49	400
2020	Second	58	5	57	5	8.77%	17	0	5
2020	First	58	200	324	200	61.73%	268	0	200
2019	Second	58	3	56	3	5.36%	22	0	3
2019	First	58	200	339	200	59.00%	285	0	200
2018	Second	40-1	4	102	4	3.92%	47	0	4
2018	First	40-1	100	315	100	31.75%	201	0	100
2017	Second	40-1	4	97	4	4.12%	16	0	4
2017	First	40-1	100	245	100	40.82%	193	0	100
2016	Second	43-1	2	24	2	8.33%	7	0	2
2016	First	43-1	100	222	100	45.05%	166	0	100
2015	Second	43-1	2	25	2	8.00%	15	0	2
2015	First	43-1	100	174	100	57.47%	133	0	100
2014	First	46*	35	59	35	59.32%	101	0	35
2013	Second	48-2	3	28	3	10.71%	9	0	3
2013	First	48-2	90	149	90	60.40%	113	0	90
2012	Second	50-3	17	39	17	43.59%	36	0	17
2012	First	50-3	100	29	29	100.00%	104	66	95
2011	Second	51	4	44	4	9.09%	36	0	4
2011	First	51	150	163	150	92.02%	277	0	150
2010	Second	61	7	54	7	12.96%	28	0	7
2010	First	61	100	181	100	55.25%	209	0	100
2009	Second	61	5	54	5	9.26%	23	0	5
2009	First	61	100	191	100	52.36%	167	0	100
2008	First	54-1*	40	462	40	8.66%	357	0	40
2007	Second	51	98	66	66	100.00%	40	18	84
2007	First	51	300	99	99	100.00%	238	130	229
2006	Second	51	138	47	47	100.00%	38	24	71
2006	First	51	350	106	106	100.00%	232	138	244
2005	Second	52A*	7	60	7	11.67%	63	0	7
2005	First	52A*	150	231	150	64.94%	262	0	150
2004	Second	51	80	68	68	100.00%	35	12	80
2004	First	51	350	132	132	100.00%	312	149	281
2003	First	52A	150	255	150	58.82%	209	0	150
2002	First	56	10	27	10	37.04%	39	0	10
2001	First	56-2	10	40	10	25.00%	52	0	10
2000	First	58-2	150	109	109	100.00%	148	41	150
1999	First	45-3	150	309	150	48.54%	216	0	150
1998	First	43-5	600	393	393	100.00%	687	207	600

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 68, 1-2, 66-2, 58, 40-1, 43-1, 46*, 48-2, 50-3, 51, 61, 54-1*, 52A*, 52A, 56, 56-2, 58-2, 45-3, 43-5. 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	76	9	11.84%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2026	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2026	First	Resident	146	120	82.19%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	82%
2026	First	Nonresident	5	5	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2025	Second	Resident	76	12	15.79%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2025	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	First	Resident	132	123	93.18%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	93%
2025	First	Nonresident	3	2	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2024	First	Resident	1,558	24	1.54%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2024	First	Nonresident	62	1	1.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2023	First	Resident	1,412	24	1.70%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2023	First	Nonresident	60	1	1.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2022	Second	Resident	104	31	29.81%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	30%
2022	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	290	290	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2022	First	Nonresident	22	22	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2021	Second	Resident	64	29	45.31%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	45%
2021	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	323	323	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2021	First	Nonresident	28	28	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2020	Second	Resident	57	5	8.77%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2020	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	First	Resident	314	193	61.46%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	61%
2020	First	Nonresident	10	7	70.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	70%
2019	Second	Resident	56	3	5.36%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2019	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	First	Resident	324	190	58.64%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	59%
2019	First	Nonresident	15	10	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2018	Second	Resident	100	4	4.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2018	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	313	99	31.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	32%
2018	First	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2017	Second	Resident	94	3	3.19%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2017	Second	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2017	First	Resident	240	100	41.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	42%
2017	First	Nonresident	5	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	Second	Resident	24	2	8.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2016	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	First	Resident	216	97	44.91%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	45%
2016	First	Nonresident	6	3	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2015	Second	Resident	23	1	4.35%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2015	Second	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2015	First	Resident	170	98	57.65%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	58%
2015	First	Nonresident	4	2	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2014	First	Resident	58	34	58.62%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	59%
2014	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2013	Second	Resident	27	3	11.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2013	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	140	82	58.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	59%
2013	First	Nonresident	9	8	88.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	89%
2012	Second	Resident	38	16	42.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	42%
2012	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2012	First	Resident	29	95	—	both draw choices	100%
2012	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2011	Second	Resident	44	4	9.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2011	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	159	146	91.82%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	92%
2011	First	Nonresident	4	4	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2010	Second	Resident	50	7	14.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2010	Second	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	First	Resident	175	95	54.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	54%
2010	First	Nonresident	6	5	83.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	83%
2009	Second	Resident	48	5	10.42%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2009	Second	Nonresident	6	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	176	95	53.98%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	54%
2009	First	Nonresident	15	5	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2008	First	Resident	458	39	8.52%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2008	First	Nonresident	4	1	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2007	Second	Resident	63	79	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Nonresident	3	5	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	First	Resident	95	220	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	First	Nonresident	4	9	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	Second	Resident	47	71	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2006	First	Resident	97	230	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	First	Nonresident	9	14	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	Second	Resident	60	7	11.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2005	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2005	First	Resident	228	147	64.47%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	64%
2005	First	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2004	Second	Resident	67	79	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	Second	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	First	Resident	130	275	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	First	Nonresident	2	6	—	both draw choices	100%
2003	First	Resident	253	148	58.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	58%
2003	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2002	First	Resident	26	10	38.46%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2002	First	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2001	First	Resident	40	10	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2001	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2000	First	Resident	108	149	—	both draw choices	100%
2000	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
1999	First	Resident	309	150	48.54%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	48%
1999	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
1998	First	Resident	389	594	—	both draw choices	100%
1998	First	Nonresident	4	6	—	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 19 different area labels for elk hunt 2106 across the seasons it published (1-2, 40-1, 43-1, 43-5, 45-3, 46*, 48-2, 50-3, 51, 52A, 52A*, 54-1*, 56, 56-2, 58, 58-2, 61, 66-2, 68). 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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2024 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-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-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.