Another 2 for Percival - the slightly-less-appalling loser of the remaining three.
Luigi Cadorna - 2.
The results from Round 35 of voting:
Francisco Solano López - 10
Luigi Cadorna, Arthur Percival - 4 each
The boldfaced leader above is eliminated. That leaves:
Luigi Cadorna: Lost twelve consecutively; hated, cruel
Arthur Percival: Surrendered Singapore to Japan
Eliminated:
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
Pyrrhus of Epirus
Benedict Arnold
James II of England
Earl of Cardigan
Cloudesley Shovell
Douglas MacArthur
William Halsey
George A. Custer
Curtis LeMay
Lord Chelmsford
George Tryon
Geoffrey Spicer-Simson
Benjamin F. Butler
Xerxes I of Persia
Ernest J. King
Gaius Terentius Varro
John A. McClernand
Daniel Sickles
Christian de Castries
Maximilian von Prittwitz
Rodolfo Graziani
William Westmoreland
Crassus
William Calley
Carlo di Persano
Heinrich Himmler
William H. Winder
Ratko Mladić
Paul D. Harkins
Oreste Baratieri
Romanus IV of Byzantium
Varus
Hermann Goering
Zinovy Rozhestvensky
William Hull
George B. McClellan
Judson Kilpatrick
Thom Karremans
Ambrose Burnside
Gaius Claudius Glaber
Douglas Haig
Braxton Bragg
Duke of Buckingham
Maurice Gamelin
Horatio Gates
Manuel Fernandez Silvestre
Nicias
Tiberius Sempronius Longus
Frederick William Stopford
Napoleon III
Philip VI
James Ledlie
John Bell Hood
Charles Alexander of Lorraine
Zhao Kuo
Abdel Hakim Amer
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
William George Keith Elphinstone
Charles le Temeraire
Francisco Solano López
New Rule
Each player gets just one vote. This is it, folks!
The next round will end at noon EST on Weds. Feb. 16.
Well…when I first saw the thread and before I opened it I thought of Percival.
However, I think Luigi deserves the honor.
So…Percival - 1
Just to be clear…I mean that Luigi gets top position…
Wow, what a shame. A Hall of Shame, that is. 
As much as I regard Percival’s defeat with a sort of armchair horror, my own crieteria weight the scale very heavily against Cadorna. Consistently repeated defeats, and failure to learn the key military lesson (multiple lines of well-prepared trenches stopped his offensives him, but in the course of two years, he didn’t prepare his own and had his men too exposed forward) were the worst of his sins, but he had plenty more to keep those company. And he seems like a nastier person than Percival, who comes across as a gentlemen in deep over his head, who got stampeded into a near panic and then later made weak excuses.
Cadorna’s postwar elevation by Mussolini doesn’t have any military meaning and shouldn’t count for the purposes of this thread, but it adds a little touch of fun to note that the worst of the worst (or the second-worst of the worst, depending on the voting!) was promoted by Mussolini.
To serve under almost any of these candidates (excepting the “political” nominations of Grant, Sherman, and Arnold [who was a good officer until, well, you know]) was to have been endangered, wounded, or killed by the worst sort of mismanagement and bungling.
But at the end of their service, Percival’s incompetently-led survivors were marched off to the dubious mercy of WWII Japanese prison camps. Cadorna’s men, probably less likely to have survived, were frankly better off if they’d been captured by Germans than to remain under the merciless heel of Cadorna, awaiting hanging, punitive decimation, and/or a return to the line for another frontal assault against machine guns. Historically, it really speaks ill of a commander to say his men would have been better off “captured by Germans.”
Arthur Percival - 1 finger
Percival - 1 vote.
(and Cadorna’s men were more likely to end up in the hands of the Austro - Hungarians).
Cadorna 1
For sheer pervesity, you can’t beat Cadorna - Percival was a loser certainly, but he only lost the once. 
Cadorna managed to lose again and again - and in an added touch, re-introduced “decimation” for his own men!
While Percival at least marched into captivity, Cadorna ends up promoted - by Mussolini. Now there is a recommendation.
He righty deserves the crown of loser-dom thrust upon his head (if there is any justice, while rotting in hell).
In short - Percival 1.
I am entirely convinced.
Percival - 1.
Computer problems kept me from voting in the last round, but it wouldn’t have made a difference.
Now that I’m back, I cast my vote to eliminate
Percival
and thus anoint Cadorna the “worst of the worst”.
I am really curious…what would Luigi say if he found out that 100 years in the future that he was found to be the worst military leader of all time? That would be an interesting reaction 
I dunno what he’d say, but it is clear what he would do … order the decimation of Dopers. 
Absolutely, statistically speaking. Eleven of his battles were against Austro-Hungarians and one was against a combined force of Austro-Hungarians abd Germans.
However, the phrase “captured by Austro-Hungarians” lacks the historical impact of “captured by Germans.” It doesn’t cause the same lurch in the pit of one’s stomach.
Well…lost cause, but I’m casting my vote for Luigi Cadorna - 1.
Malaya-Singapore just seem like much more inept and unforgivable losses to me. Sure Cadorna was stubbornly idiotic, but given WW I tactics his repeated failure to batter his way through to Slovenia doesn’t seem so surprising, especially considering Boroevic’s stellar performance.
But either way I’m reasonably happy. They both were Losers with a capital “L” ;).
Percival -1 vote. Actually, considering how terrible the leadership was in WW1, it seems perfectly appropriate to me that the worst military leader of all time would come from that conflict. I can definitely get behind Cadorna as the winner, er, loser.
By the way, as we head towards the finish line, might I suggest “Most Historically Significant Battles?” Not most decisive - Carrhae was quite decisive, but as noted it was probably not of more than immediate and local significance. I don’t know that there is an obvious and immediate winner in the “most significant” category and there is certainly room for argument for some of the obvious targets.
Sounds like a good idea. Would you be willing to run it? And would it just be land battles, or naval too?
I think it needs to be 2 different contests. Too much apples and oranges.
Poor Hannibal…won’t do well. Greatest ass-kicker he would do great. Most decisive, no.
I may actually be on the winning (errr… losing?) side finally.
Percival - 1