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Idaho elk controlled hunt 2135

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 550 permits on hunt 2135 in 2026 and issued 550 — the hunt filled. In the first application period, 286 hunters put it first and 286 drew, 100.00%. A further 264 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 28 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	39	89	109	89	81.65%	46	0	89
2026	First	39	550	286	286	100.00%	442	264	550
2025	Second	39	81	81	81	100.00%	62	0	81
2025	First	39	550	300	300	100.00%	437	250	550
2024	First	55-2	10	61	10	16.39%	46	0	10
2023	Second	55-2	1	41	1	2.44%	10	0	1
2023	First	55-2	10	27	10	37.04%	27	0	10
2022	Second	39	37	73	37	50.68%	39	0	37
2022	First	39	550	274	274	100.00%	374	276	550
2021	Second	39	54	88	54	61.36%	40	0	54
2021	First	39	550	334	334	100.00%	357	216	550
2020	First	33-1	25	197	25	12.69%	61	0	25
2019	Second	33-1	2	56	2	3.57%	15	0	2
2019	First	33-1	25	253	25	9.88%	47	0	25
2018	Second	54	5	368	5	1.36%	78	0	5
2018	First	54	150	957	150	15.67%	521	0	150
2017	Second	54	1	98	1	1.02%	31	0	1
2017	First	54	150	934	150	16.06%	465	0	150
2016	Second	76-1	10	18	10	55.56%	27	0	10
2016	First	76-1	100	75	75	100.00%	177	25	100
2015	Second	76-1	6	19	6	31.58%	24	0	6
2015	First	76-1	100	91	91	100.00%	199	9	100
2014	Second	29	1	1	1	100.00%	2	0	1
2014	First	29	15	27	15	55.56%	4	0	15
2013	First	39-4	75	317	75	23.66%	97	0	75
2011	First	30	15	20	15	75.00%	15	0	15
2010	Second	33-2*	8	33	8	24.24%	24	0	8
2010	First	33-2*	50	26	26	100.00%	83	24	50
2009	Second	66*	1	18	1	5.56%	0	0	1
2009	First	66*	50	120	50	41.67%	47	0	50
2008	Second	62-1*	1	1	1	100.00%	0	0	1
2008	First	62-1*	25	20	20	100.00%	18	5	25
2007	Second	62-1*	8	8	8	100.00%	0	0	8
2007	First	62-1*	25	16	16	100.00%	16	3	19
2006	Second	54*	2	26	2	7.69%	9	0	2
2006	First	54*	10	45	10	22.22%	35	0	10
2005	First	54*	10	67	10	14.93%	43	0	10
2004	First	11	4	1	1	100.00%	0	0	1
2003	First	33-2	50	45	45	100.00%	21	5	50
2002	First	29-1	6	4	4	100.00%	2	0	4
2001	First	36A-2	7	16	7	43.75%	0	0	7
2000	First	43	6	7	6	85.71%	0	0	6
1999	First	24-3	300	302	300	99.34%	95	0	300
1998	First	75-2	450	161	161	100.00%	202	122	283

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 39, 55-2, 33-1, 54, 76-1, 29, 39-4, 30, 33-2*, 66*, 62-1*, 54*, 11, 33-2, 29-1, 36A-2, 43, 24-3, 75-2. 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	107	87	81.31%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	81%
2026	Second	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2026	First	Resident	266	266	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2026	First	Nonresident	20	20	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	Second	Resident	79	79	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2025	Second	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2025	First	Resident	278	278	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2025	First	Nonresident	22	22	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2024	First	Resident	44	9	20.45%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	20%
2024	First	Nonresident	17	1	5.88%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	6%
2023	Second	Resident	32	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	Second	Nonresident	9	1	11.11%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2023	First	Resident	24	9	37.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	38%
2023	First	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2022	Second	Resident	70	36	51.43%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	51%
2022	Second	Nonresident	3	1	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2022	First	Resident	265	265	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2022	First	Nonresident	9	9	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2021	Second	Resident	86	52	60.47%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	60%
2021	Second	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2021	First	Resident	321	321	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2021	First	Nonresident	13	13	100.00%	first choice only	100%
2020	First	Resident	191	25	13.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	13%
2020	First	Nonresident	6	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	Second	Resident	53	2	3.77%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	4%
2019	Second	Nonresident	3	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2019	First	Resident	242	25	10.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	10%
2019	First	Nonresident	11	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	Second	Resident	354	5	1.41%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2018	Second	Nonresident	14	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2018	First	Resident	940	147	15.64%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2018	First	Nonresident	17	3	17.65%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	18%
2017	Second	Resident	85	1	1.18%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	1%
2017	Second	Nonresident	13	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2017	First	Resident	910	144	15.82%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2017	First	Nonresident	24	6	25.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	25%
2016	Second	Resident	16	10	62.50%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	62%
2016	Second	Nonresident	2	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2016	First	Resident	73	98	—	both draw choices	100%
2016	First	Nonresident	2	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	Second	Resident	19	6	31.58%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	32%
2015	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2015	First	Resident	90	99	—	both draw choices	100%
2015	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2014	Second	Resident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2014	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2014	First	Resident	27	15	55.56%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	56%
2014	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2013	First	Resident	308	72	23.38%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	23%
2013	First	Nonresident	9	3	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2011	First	Resident	20	15	75.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	75%
2011	First	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	Second	Resident	33	8	24.24%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	24%
2010	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2010	First	Resident	23	47	—	both draw choices	100%
2010	First	Nonresident	3	3	—	both draw choices	100%
2009	Second	Resident	14	1	7.14%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	7%
2009	Second	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2009	First	Resident	105	45	42.86%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	43%
2009	First	Nonresident	15	5	33.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	33%
2008	Second	Resident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2008	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2008	First	Resident	18	23	—	both draw choices	100%
2008	First	Nonresident	2	2	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	Second	Resident	8	8	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2007	Second	Nonresident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2007	First	Resident	15	18	—	both draw choices	100%
2007	First	Nonresident	1	1	—	both draw choices	100%
2006	Second	Resident	22	2	9.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2006	Second	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2006	First	Resident	41	10	24.39%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	24%
2006	First	Nonresident	4	0	0.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	0%
2005	First	Resident	56	9	16.07%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	16%
2005	First	Nonresident	11	1	9.09%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	9%
2004	First	Resident	0	0	—	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2004	First	Nonresident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2003	First	Resident	41	45	—	both draw choices	100%
2003	First	Nonresident	4	5	—	both draw choices	100%
2002	First	Resident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2002	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2001	First	Resident	5	3	60.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	60%
2001	First	Nonresident	11	4	36.36%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	36%
2000	First	Resident	1	1	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
2000	First	Nonresident	6	5	83.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	83%
1999	First	Resident	300	298	99.33%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	99%
1999	First	Nonresident	2	2	100.00%	no permits went to second choice, so the two readings agree	100%
1998	First	Resident	160	281	—	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 2135 across the seasons it published (11, 24-3, 29, 29-1, 30, 33-1, 33-2, 33-2*, 36A-2, 39, 39-4, 43, 54, 54*, 55-2, 62-1*, 66*, 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-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-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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2013 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-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-draw1.json — Idaho Fish and Game controlled hunt drawing odds, 2005 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.