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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2129

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 150 permits on hunt 2129 in 2026 and issued 146, so it did not fill. In the first application period, 54 hunters put it first and 54 drew, 100.00%. A further 92 permits went to hunters who had named it as their second choice.

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	22	29	24	24	100.00%	14	5	29
2026	First	22	150	54	54	100.00%	113	92	146
2025	Second	22	73	46	46	100.00%	31	27	73
2025	First	22	150	35	35	100.00%	106	70	105
2024	Second	39	67	82	67	81.71%	66	0	67
2024	First	39	550	312	312	100.00%	466	238	550
2023	Second	39	45	106	45	42.45%	22	0	45
2023	First	39	550	296	296	100.00%	455	254	550
2022	Second	32A-2	106	14	14	100.00%	6	3	17
2022	First	32A-2	150	21	21	100.00%	49	31	52
2021	Second	32A-2	113	12	12	100.00%	19	14	26
2021	First	32A-2	150	25	25	100.00%	33	22	47
2020	First	46-1	15	112	15	13.39%	93	0	15
2019	First	46-1	15	235	15	6.38%	79	0	15
2018	Second	50-3	27	77	27	35.06%	60	0	27
2018	First	50-3	200	61	61	100.00%	265	139	200
2017	Second	50-3	21	48	21	43.75%	22	0	21
2017	First	50-3	200	62	62	100.00%	285	137	199
2016	Second	59-1	3	136	3	2.21%	45	0	3
2016	First	59-1	200	747	200	26.77%	544	0	200
2015	Second	59-1	3	120	3	2.50%	39	0	3
2015	First	59-1	200	715	200	27.97%	486	0	200
2014	Second	3-2	10	296	10	3.38%	91	0	10
2014	First	3-2	300	708	300	42.37%	333	0	300
2013	Second	1	25	532	25	4.70%	20	0	25
2013	First	1	400	1,342	400	29.81%	90	0	400
2012	Second	30	2	6	2	33.33%	0	0	2
2012	First	30	15	39	15	38.46%	5	0	15
2011	Second	62A	10	69	10	14.49%	33	0	10
2011	First	62A	150	263	150	57.03%	207	0	150
2010	Second	11-1	1	10	1	10.00%	3	0	1
2010	First	11-1	50	73	50	68.49%	51	0	50
2009	Second	33-1*	5	71	5	7.04%	5	0	5
2009	First	33-1*	50	254	50	19.69%	71	0	50
2008	First	25	10	49	10	20.41%	5	0	10
2007	Second	24-3	37	6	6	100.00%	2	2	8
2007	First	24-3	50	8	8	100.00%	13	9	17
2006	Second	4*	3	17	3	17.65%	2	0	3
2006	First	4*	50	126	50	39.68%	2	0	50
2005	Second	60*	117	22	22	100.00%	17	13	35
2005	First	60*	200	71	71	100.00%	38	22	93
2004	Second	23-2	6	1	1	100.00%	1	1	2
2004	First	23-2	25	16	16	100.00%	10	4	20
2003	First	4	20	109	20	18.35%	9	0	20
2002	First	25-1	25	41	25	60.98%	32	0	25
2001	First	33-2	50	59	50	84.75%	34	0	50
2000	First	13	9	11	9	81.82%	2	0	9
1999	First	13-2	192	299	192	64.21%	51	0	192
1998	First	66A-3	150	1,052	150	14.26%	1,089	0	150

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 22, 39, 32A-2, 46-1, 50-3, 59-1, 3-2, 1, 30, 62A, 11-1, 33-1*, 25, 24-3, 4*, 60*, 23-2, 4, 25-1, 33-2, 13, 13-2, 66A-3. 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	24	24	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2026	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2026	First	Resident	52	52	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2026	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	Second	Resident	45	45	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	First	Resident	33	33	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	Second	Resident	79	65	82.28%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	82%
2024	Second	Nonresident	3	2	66.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	67%
2024	First	Resident	296	296	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	First	Nonresident	16	16	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2023	Second	Resident	104	43	41.35%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	41%
2023	Second	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	280	280	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2023	First	Nonresident	16	16	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2022	Second	Resident	14	14	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2022	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2022	First	Resident	21	21	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2022	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2021	Second	Resident	12	12	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2021	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2021	First	Resident	25	25	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2021	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	first choice only	0%
2020	First	Resident	90	14	15.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2020	First	Nonresident	22	1	4.55%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2019	First	Resident	171	14	8.19%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2019	First	Nonresident	64	1	1.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2018	Second	Resident	74	26	35.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	35%
2018	Second	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2018	First	Resident	59	198	—	both draw choices	100%
2018	First	Nonresident	2	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2017	Second	Resident	45	21	46.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	47%
2017	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	61	187	—	both draw choices	100%
2017	First	Nonresident	1	12	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	Second	Resident	130	3	2.31%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	2%
2016	Second	Nonresident	6	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	First	Resident	735	197	26.80%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	27%
2016	First	Nonresident	12	3	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2015	Second	Resident	118	3	2.54%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2015	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	First	Resident	702	195	27.78%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
2015	First	Nonresident	13	5	38.46%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2014	Second	Resident	287	10	3.48%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2014	Second	Nonresident	9	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2014	First	Resident	680	286	42.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	42%
2014	First	Nonresident	28	14	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2013	Second	Resident	516	24	4.65%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	5%
2013	Second	Nonresident	16	1	6.25%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2013	First	Resident	1,303	391	30.01%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	30%
2013	First	Nonresident	39	9	23.08%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2012	Second	Resident	6	2	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2012	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	39	15	38.46%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2012	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	Second	Resident	67	10	14.93%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2011	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2011	First	Resident	258	146	56.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2011	First	Nonresident	5	4	80.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	80%
2010	Second	Resident	5	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	Second	Nonresident	5	1	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2010	First	Resident	61	45	73.77%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	74%
2010	First	Nonresident	12	5	41.67%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	42%
2009	Second	Resident	71	5	7.04%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2009	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	245	46	18.78%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	19%
2009	First	Nonresident	9	4	44.44%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
2008	First	Resident	49	10	20.41%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2008	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2007	Second	Resident	6	8	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2007	First	Resident	8	17	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2006	Second	Resident	15	2	13.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2006	Second	Nonresident	2	1	50.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	50%
2006	First	Resident	121	49	40.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	40%
2006	First	Nonresident	5	1	20.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2005	Second	Resident	21	34	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	Second	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	First	Resident	69	91	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	First	Nonresident	2	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	Second	Resident	1	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	First	Resident	16	20	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	100%
2003	First	Resident	107	20	18.69%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2003	First	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2002	First	Resident	41	25	60.98%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	61%
2002	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2001	First	Resident	52	46	88.46%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	88%
2001	First	Nonresident	7	4	57.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2000	First	Resident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2000	First	Nonresident	10	8	80.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	80%
1999	First	Resident	235	180	76.60%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	76%
1999	First	Nonresident	64	12	18.75%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
1998	First	Resident	1,032	150	14.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	14%
1998	First	Nonresident	20	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%

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 23 different area labels for elk hunt 2129 across the seasons it published (1, 11-1, 13, 13-2, 22, 23-2, 24-3, 25, 25-1, 3-2, 30, 32A-2, 33-1*, 33-2, 39, 4, 4*, 46-1, 50-3, 59-1, 60*, 62A, 66A-3). 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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2020 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-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.