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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2109

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 25 permits on hunt 2109 in 2026 and issued 25 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 1,760 hunters put it first and 25 drew, 1.42%.

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	First	1-2	25	1,760	25	1.42%	432	0	25
2025	Second	1-2	1	425	1	0.24%	54	0	1
2025	First	1-2	25	1,645	25	1.52%	417	0	25
2024	Second	39-3	5	81	5	6.17%	23	0	5
2024	First	39-3	50	182	50	27.47%	132	0	50
2023	Second	39-3	1	24	1	4.17%	23	0	1
2023	First	39-3	50	253	50	19.76%	100	0	50
2022	First	67-1	40	95	40	42.11%	26	0	40
2021	Second	67-1	1	10	1	10.00%	2	0	1
2021	First	67-1	40	81	40	49.38%	23	0	40
2020	Second	61	2	44	2	4.55%	27	0	2
2020	First	61	100	233	100	42.92%	163	0	100
2019	Second	61	7	63	7	11.11%	19	0	7
2019	First	61	100	231	100	43.29%	166	0	100
2018	First	41-1	50	74	50	67.57%	43	0	50
2017	Second	41-1	1	3	1	33.33%	1	0	1
2017	First	41-1	50	64	50	78.13%	44	0	50
2016	Second	45-1	8	208	8	3.85%	104	0	8
2016	First	45-1	300	589	300	50.93%	568	0	300
2015	Second	45-1	7	264	7	2.65%	82	0	7
2015	First	45-1	300	651	300	46.08%	699	0	300
2014	Second	48-3*	8	27	8	29.63%	24	0	8
2014	First	48-3*	125	90	90	100.00%	71	34	124
2013	Second	49	10	235	10	4.26%	88	0	10
2013	First	49	125	335	125	37.31%	421	0	125
2012	Second	52A*	4	142	4	2.82%	50	0	4
2012	First	52A*	150	489	150	30.67%	512	0	150
2011	Second	52A-2	5	19	5	26.32%	39	0	5
2011	First	52A-2	50	26	26	100.00%	104	24	50
2010	Second	76-1	36	263	36	13.69%	51	0	36
2010	First	76-1	700	994	700	70.42%	558	0	700
2009	Second	76-1	42	294	42	14.29%	95	0	42
2009	First	76-1	700	1,093	700	64.04%	545	0	700
2008	Second	59*	9	116	9	7.76%	28	0	9
2008	First	59*	150	389	150	38.56%	295	0	150
2007	First	54-1*	40	409	40	9.78%	263	0	40
2006	Second	54*	1	36	1	2.78%	14	0	1
2006	First	54*	40	363	40	11.02%	231	0	40
2005	Second	59*	3	39	3	7.69%	29	0	3
2005	First	59*	150	334	150	44.91%	281	0	150
2004	Second	58-2	5	20	5	25.00%	30	0	5
2004	First	58-2	200	209	200	95.69%	147	0	200
2003	First	58-2	200	189	189	100.00%	223	11	200
2002	First	60-2	350	472	350	74.15%	693	0	350
2001	First	60-2	300	450	300	66.67%	457	0	300
2000	First	60A	350	604	350	57.95%	465	0	350
1999	First	49-3	300	613	300	48.94%	564	0	300
1998	First	48-4	200	105	105	100.00%	200	94	199

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 1-2, 39-3, 67-1, 61, 41-1, 45-1, 48-3*, 49, 52A*, 52A-2, 76-1, 59*, 54-1*, 54*, 58-2, 60-2, 60A, 49-3, 48-4. 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	First	Resident	1,654	24	1.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2026	First	Nonresident	106	1	0.94%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2025	Second	Resident	403	1	0.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	Second	Nonresident	22	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	First	Resident	1,559	23	1.48%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2025	First	Nonresident	86	2	2.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2024	Second	Resident	79	5	6.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2024	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2024	First	Resident	174	49	28.16%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
2024	First	Nonresident	8	1	12.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2023	Second	Resident	21	1	4.76%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2023	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	239	48	20.08%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2023	First	Nonresident	14	2	14.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2022	First	Resident	79	36	45.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	46%
2022	First	Nonresident	16	4	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
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	67	36	53.73%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	54%
2021	First	Nonresident	14	4	28.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2020	Second	Resident	43	2	4.65%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2020	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2020	First	Resident	219	92	42.01%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	42%
2020	First	Nonresident	14	8	57.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2019	Second	Resident	61	7	11.48%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2019	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	First	Resident	223	100	44.84%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	45%
2019	First	Nonresident	8	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	67	47	70.15%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	70%
2018	First	Nonresident	7	3	42.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	43%
2017	Second	Resident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2017	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	62	48	77.42%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	77%
2017	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2016	Second	Resident	205	8	3.90%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2016	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	First	Resident	576	289	50.17%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2016	First	Nonresident	13	11	84.62%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	85%
2015	Second	Resident	253	7	2.77%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2015	Second	Nonresident	11	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	First	Resident	641	295	46.02%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	46%
2015	First	Nonresident	10	5	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2014	Second	Resident	27	8	29.63%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	30%
2014	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2014	First	Resident	89	123	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2013	Second	Resident	233	10	4.29%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2013	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	327	121	37.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	37%
2013	First	Nonresident	8	4	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2012	Second	Resident	142	4	2.82%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2012	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	488	149	30.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	31%
2012	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2011	Second	Resident	17	5	29.41%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2011	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	26	47	—	both draw choices	100%
2011	First	Nonresident	0	3	—	both draw choices	0%
2010	Second	Resident	257	36	14.01%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2010	Second	Nonresident	6	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	First	Resident	968	684	70.66%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	71%
2010	First	Nonresident	26	16	61.54%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	62%
2009	Second	Resident	285	39	13.68%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2009	Second	Nonresident	9	3	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2009	First	Resident	1,062	678	63.84%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	64%
2009	First	Nonresident	31	22	70.97%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	71%
2008	Second	Resident	115	9	7.83%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2008	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	384	147	38.28%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2008	First	Nonresident	5	3	60.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	60%
2007	First	Resident	403	37	9.18%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2007	First	Nonresident	6	3	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2006	Second	Resident	36	1	2.78%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2006	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	First	Resident	359	40	11.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2006	First	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2005	Second	Resident	39	3	7.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2005	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2005	First	Resident	324	144	44.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
2005	First	Nonresident	10	6	60.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	60%
2004	Second	Resident	20	5	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2004	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2004	First	Resident	202	193	95.54%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	95%
2004	First	Nonresident	7	7	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2003	First	Resident	185	196	—	both draw choices	100%
2003	First	Nonresident	4	4	—	both draw choices	100%
2002	First	Resident	470	349	74.26%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	74%
2002	First	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2001	First	Resident	447	299	66.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	66%
2001	First	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2000	First	Resident	599	347	57.93%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2000	First	Nonresident	5	3	60.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	60%
1999	First	Resident	604	296	49.01%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	49%
1999	First	Nonresident	9	4	44.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
1998	First	Resident	104	197	—	both draw choices	100%
1998	First	Nonresident	1	2	—	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 2109 across the seasons it published (1-2, 39-3, 41-1, 45-1, 48-3*, 48-4, 49, 49-3, 52A*, 52A-2, 54*, 54-1*, 58-2, 59*, 60-2, 60A, 61, 67-1, 76-1). 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-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-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-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-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.