“If the votes weren’t split,” Farhan Iqbal said in a tweet after Wan Dzahanurin Ahmad of Perikatan Nasional squeaked through by 167 votes in a three-cornered fight. Farhan said this in a tweet in his personal capacity.

Some of his followers agreed with him and labelled Muda a “Trojan horse”.

Dzahanurin secured 28,926 votes against the 28,759 won by his main rival, Zawali Mughni of PH.

Afriena Shaqira of Muda won 1,341 votes, more than enough to have secured victory for PH if the votes had gone their way.

The Sungai Kandis seat had been held by a PKR candidate since 2008, when it was known as Seri Andalas.

In June, Muda president Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman dismissed the notion that the party would be hurting the chances of the PH-BN alliance by splitting the votes.

However, last month Kedah Barisan Nasional chairman Mahdzir Khalid refused to rule out the possibility of split votes after Muda decided to contest in the state polls.