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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2131

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 2131 in 2026 and issued 25 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 164 hunters put it first and 25 drew, 15.24%.

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	33-1	2	58	2	3.45%	6	0	2
2026	First	33-1	25	164	25	15.24%	26	0	25
2025	First	33-1	25	200	25	12.50%	66	0	25
2024	Second	48	16	26	16	61.54%	19	0	16
2024	First	48	75	30	30	100.00%	90	45	75
2023	Second	48	32	70	32	45.71%	15	0	32
2023	First	48	75	23	23	100.00%	50	32	55
2022	First	33-2	50	57	50	87.72%	104	0	50
2021	Second	33-2	3	74	3	4.05%	10	0	3
2021	First	33-2	50	83	50	60.24%	90	0	50
2020	Second	22	98	27	27	100.00%	20	16	43
2020	First	22	150	27	27	100.00%	40	31	58
2019	Second	22	68	31	31	100.00%	9	9	40
2019	First	22	150	24	24	100.00%	85	71	95
2018	Second	52	19	4	4	100.00%	6	6	10
2018	First	52	50	17	17	100.00%	40	21	38
2017	Second	52	26	4	4	100.00%	2	2	6
2017	First	52	50	20	20	100.00%	14	10	30
2016	Second	61	6	83	6	7.23%	27	0	6
2016	First	61	100	228	100	43.86%	193	0	100
2015	Second	61	2	34	2	5.88%	25	0	2
2015	First	61	100	228	100	43.86%	192	0	100
2014	First	11-2*	10	100	10	10.00%	26	0	10
2013	Second	3-2	17	264	17	6.44%	37	0	17
2013	First	3-2	300	682	300	43.99%	168	0	300
2012	Second	44-2*	11	98	11	11.22%	4	0	11
2012	First	44-2*	150	307	150	48.86%	43	0	150
2011	First	45*	15	140	15	10.71%	64	0	15
2010	Second	24-3	21	4	4	100.00%	2	2	6
2010	First	24-3	50	19	19	100.00%	24	12	31
2009	First	54*	10	91	10	10.99%	69	0	10
2008	First	33-1*	no cap	418	418	100.00%	114	70	488
2007	Second	32A	23	16	16	100.00%	3	1	17
2007	First	32A	100	58	58	100.00%	47	29	87
2006	Second	24-3	40	2	2	100.00%	1	1	3
2006	First	24-3	50	4	4	100.00%	19	6	10
2005	Second	22-3	26	17	17	100.00%	3	2	19
2005	First	22-3	100	50	50	100.00%	63	32	82
2004	Second	25	1	3	1	33.33%	1	0	1
2004	First	25	25	44	25	56.82%	12	0	25
2003	First	23-2	25	22	22	100.00%	13	3	25
2002	First	33-2	50	60	50	83.33%	28	0	50
2001	First	13	9	10	9	90.00%	3	0	9
2000	First	29-1	6	12	6	50.00%	2	0	6
1999	First	62	286	630	286	45.40%	326	0	286
1998	First	67-3	200	204	200	98.04%	195	0	200

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.

No cap is a hunt Idaho drew without a permit limit. Its data carries 99,999 and 999,999 as placeholders in the permits-available field and states nowhere what they mean, so no quota is shown rather than one of those figures.

The area label changes across seasons for this hunt number — Idaho printed 33-1, 48, 33-2, 22, 52, 61, 11-2*, 3-2, 44-2*, 45*, 24-3, 54*, 33-1*, 32A, 22-3, 25, 23-2, 13, 29-1, 62, 67-3. 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	58	2	3.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	3%
2026	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2026	First	Resident	160	24	15.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	15%
2026	First	Nonresident	4	1	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2025	First	Resident	196	25	12.76%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2025	First	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2024	Second	Resident	23	13	56.52%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2024	Second	Nonresident	3	3	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2024	First	Resident	24	24	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	First	Nonresident	6	6	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2023	Second	Resident	63	29	46.03%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	46%
2023	Second	Nonresident	7	3	42.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	18	18	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2023	First	Nonresident	5	5	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2022	First	Resident	52	47	90.38%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	90%
2022	First	Nonresident	5	3	60.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	60%
2021	Second	Resident	73	3	4.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2021	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2021	First	Resident	76	46	60.53%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	61%
2021	First	Nonresident	7	4	57.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	57%
2020	Second	Resident	26	26	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2020	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	first choice only	14%
2020	First	Resident	26	26	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2020	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2019	Second	Resident	30	30	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2019	Second	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2019	First	Resident	23	23	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2019	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2018	Second	Resident	4	10	—	both draw choices	100%
2018	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2018	First	Resident	17	38	—	both draw choices	100%
2018	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2017	Second	Resident	4	6	—	both draw choices	150%
2017	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2017	First	Resident	18	28	—	both draw choices	100%
2017	First	Nonresident	2	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	Second	Resident	79	6	7.59%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	8%
2016	Second	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	First	Resident	218	99	45.41%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	45%
2016	First	Nonresident	10	1	10.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2015	Second	Resident	33	2	6.06%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2015	Second	Nonresident	1	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	First	Resident	222	98	44.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
2015	First	Nonresident	6	2	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2014	First	Resident	92	10	10.87%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2014	First	Nonresident	8	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	Second	Resident	257	17	6.61%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2013	Second	Nonresident	7	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	664	293	44.13%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	44%
2013	First	Nonresident	18	7	38.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	39%
2012	Second	Resident	98	11	11.22%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2012	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2012	First	Resident	304	149	49.01%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	49%
2012	First	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2011	First	Resident	132	15	11.36%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	11%
2011	First	Nonresident	8	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	Second	Resident	4	6	—	both draw choices	100%
2010	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2010	First	Resident	19	31	—	both draw choices	100%
2010	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2009	First	Resident	87	9	10.34%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2009	First	Nonresident	4	1	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2008	First	Resident	413	482	—	both draw choices	100%
2008	First	Nonresident	5	6	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Resident	16	17	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2007	First	Resident	57	85	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	First	Nonresident	1	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	Second	Resident	2	3	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2006	First	Resident	4	10	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2005	Second	Resident	17	19	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	both draw choices	0%
2005	First	Resident	49	81	—	both draw choices	100%
2005	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2004	Second	Resident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2004	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2004	First	Resident	44	25	56.82%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	56%
2004	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2003	First	Resident	21	24	—	both draw choices	100%
2003	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2002	First	Resident	46	46	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2002	First	Nonresident	14	4	28.57%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	28%
2001	First	Resident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2001	First	Nonresident	9	8	88.89%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	88%
2000	First	Resident	4	4	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2000	First	Nonresident	8	2	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
1999	First	Resident	558	270	48.39%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	48%
1999	First	Nonresident	72	16	22.22%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	22%
1998	First	Resident	203	199	98.03%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	98%
1998	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	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 21 different area labels for elk hunt 2131 across the seasons it published (11-2*, 13, 22, 22-3, 23-2, 24-3, 25, 29-1, 3-2, 32A, 33-1, 33-1*, 33-2, 44-2*, 45*, 48, 52, 54*, 61, 62, 67-3). 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-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-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-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-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.