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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2127

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 20 permits on hunt 2127 in 2026 and issued 20 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 1,253 hunters put it first and 20 drew, 1.60%.

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	54	20	1,253	20	1.60%	267	0	20
2025	First	54	20	1,145	20	1.75%	299	0	20
2024	Second	36A-2	14	74	14	18.92%	7	0	14
2024	First	36A-2	125	136	109	80.15%	128	16	125
2023	Second	36A-2	16	84	16	19.05%	25	0	16
2023	First	36A-2	125	107	82	76.64%	162	43	125
2022	Second	24	50	1	1	100.00%	0	0	1
2022	First	24	50	0	0	—	1	0	0
2021	Second	24	48	1	1	100.00%	0	0	1
2021	First	24	50	4	4	100.00%	9	5	9
2020	First	44	25	409	25	6.11%	149	0	25
2019	Second	44	2	171	2	1.17%	29	0	2
2019	First	44	25	360	25	6.94%	187	0	25
2018	Second	50-1	3	49	3	6.12%	20	0	3
2018	First	50-1	200	310	200	64.52%	304	0	200
2017	Second	50-1	10	46	10	21.74%	21	0	10
2017	First	50-1	200	211	199	94.31%	246	0	199
2016	Second	55-2	2	12	2	16.67%	18	0	2
2016	First	55-2	50	63	50	79.37%	123	0	50
2015	Second	55-2	6	57	6	10.53%	33	0	6
2015	First	55-2	50	70	50	71.43%	165	0	50
2014	Second	1	16	571	16	2.80%	47	0	16
2014	First	1	400	1,519	400	26.33%	141	0	400
2013	Second	76-1	27	154	27	17.53%	55	0	27
2013	First	76-1	700	794	700	88.16%	540	0	700
2012	Second	62-2*	6	105	6	5.71%	27	0	6
2012	First	62-2*	150	448	150	33.48%	236	0	150
2011	Second	39-4	3	80	3	3.75%	12	0	3
2011	First	39-4	75	231	75	32.47%	99	0	75
2010	Second	66*	17	18	17	94.44%	1	0	17
2010	First	66*	100	113	100	88.50%	31	0	100
2009	First	25	10	46	10	21.74%	5	0	10
2008	Second	22-3	30	24	24	100.00%	8	3	27
2008	First	22-3	100	48	48	100.00%	46	24	72
2007	Second	60*	37	18	18	100.00%	5	3	21
2007	First	60*	100	50	50	100.00%	27	18	68
2006	Second	43-1	10	28	10	35.71%	2	0	10
2006	First	43-1	150	136	136	100.00%	40	14	150
2005	Second	28	2	12	2	16.67%	3	0	2
2005	First	28	146	145	145	100.00%	24	1	146
2004	Second	4	1	12	1	8.33%	2	0	1
2004	First	4	20	123	20	16.26%	10	0	20
2003	First	60	200	49	49	100.00%	19	8	57
2002	First	23-2	25	16	16	100.00%	8	1	17
2001	First	25	25	42	25	59.52%	31	0	25
2000	First	33-2	50	71	50	70.42%	39	0	50
1999	First	75-2	450	140	140	100.00%	256	132	272
1998	First	66-1	600	433	433	100.00%	448	154	587

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 54, 36A-2, 24, 44, 50-1, 55-2, 1, 76-1, 62-2*, 39-4, 66*, 25, 22-3, 60*, 43-1, 28, 4, 60, 23-2, 33-2, 75-2, 66-1. 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	728	18	2.47%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2026	First	Nonresident	525	2	0.38%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2025	First	Resident	714	18	2.52%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2025	First	Nonresident	431	2	0.46%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2024	Second	Resident	54	6	11.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2024	Second	Nonresident	20	8	40.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2024	First	Resident	97	97	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	First	Nonresident	39	12	30.77%	first choice only	31%
2023	Second	Resident	72	16	22.22%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	22%
2023	Second	Nonresident	12	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	72	70	97.22%	first choice only	97%
2023	First	Nonresident	35	12	34.29%	first choice only	34%
2022	Second	Resident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2022	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Resident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2022	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	Second	Resident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2021	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	4	4	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2021	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2020	First	Resident	261	23	8.81%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2020	First	Nonresident	148	2	1.35%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2019	Second	Resident	138	2	1.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2019	Second	Nonresident	33	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	First	Resident	246	23	9.35%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2019	First	Nonresident	114	2	1.75%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2018	Second	Resident	46	3	6.52%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2018	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	296	192	64.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	65%
2018	First	Nonresident	14	8	57.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2017	Second	Resident	44	10	22.73%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2017	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	205	193	94.15%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	94%
2017	First	Nonresident	6	6	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2016	Second	Resident	10	1	10.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2016	Second	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2016	First	Resident	63	50	79.37%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	79%
2016	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	Second	Resident	52	6	11.54%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	12%
2015	Second	Nonresident	5	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	First	Resident	68	48	70.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	71%
2015	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2014	Second	Resident	542	16	2.95%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2014	Second	Nonresident	29	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2014	First	Resident	1,463	384	26.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	26%
2014	First	Nonresident	56	16	28.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	29%
2013	Second	Resident	151	27	17.88%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2013	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	772	680	88.08%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	88%
2013	First	Nonresident	22	20	90.91%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	91%
2012	Second	Resident	96	5	5.21%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2012	Second	Nonresident	9	1	11.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2012	First	Resident	423	140	33.10%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2012	First	Nonresident	25	10	40.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2011	Second	Resident	78	3	3.85%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2011	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	227	74	32.60%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2011	First	Nonresident	4	1	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2010	Second	Resident	18	17	94.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	94%
2010	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	First	Resident	112	99	88.39%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	88%
2010	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2009	First	Resident	46	10	21.74%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	22%
2009	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	Second	Resident	24	27	—	both draw choices	100%
2008	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2008	First	Resident	47	70	—	both draw choices	100%
2008	First	Nonresident	1	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Resident	18	21	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2007	First	Resident	50	68	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2006	Second	Resident	28	10	35.71%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	36%
2006	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	First	Resident	136	150	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2005	Second	Resident	11	2	18.18%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2005	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2005	First	Resident	134	135	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	First	Nonresident	11	11	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	Second	Resident	12	1	8.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2004	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2004	First	Resident	121	18	14.88%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
2004	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2003	First	Resident	47	55	—	both draw choices	100%
2003	First	Nonresident	2	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2002	First	Resident	16	17	—	both draw choices	100%
2002	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	100%
2001	First	Resident	42	25	59.52%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	59%
2001	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2000	First	Resident	61	45	73.77%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	73%
2000	First	Nonresident	10	5	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
1999	First	Resident	135	267	—	both draw choices	100%
1999	First	Nonresident	5	5	—	both draw choices	100%
1998	First	Resident	416	567	—	both draw choices	100%
1998	First	Nonresident	17	20	—	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 22 different area labels for elk hunt 2127 across the seasons it published (1, 22-3, 23-2, 24, 25, 28, 33-2, 36A-2, 39-4, 4, 43-1, 44, 50-1, 54, 55-2, 60, 60*, 62-2*, 66*, 66-1, 75-2, 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-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-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-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.