Simon Danczuk received death threats during the selection process. The postal ballot got a 78% turnout and Danczuk received almost twice as many votes as the second-placed candidate. Seven members of Rochdale Labour Party who were accused of bringing the Labour party into disrepute by criticising his behaviour were expelled, or resigned, after a disciplinary hearing in September 2009. In the 2010 general election, Danczuk won 16,699 votes, unseating incumbent Liberal Democrat Paul Rowen, who received 15,810 as Conservative Mudasir Dean polled 8,305, despite the incident leading to Prime Minister Gordon Brown's "bigoted woman" remark having occurred in Rochdale. In May 2011,
The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia thus get rid of the disapproving church elders. The new church is called the "Temple of Man." Unfortunately, Kate Ransom falls in love with his friend Mark Overman. The two men have a fight over the woman, and Gordon kills Overman. Ransom tells the police about the murder and Gordon is sentenced to the death penalty. Meanwhile, his faithful ex-wife asks her childhood lover, now the Governor of New York, to grant him a pardon, which he does. Gordon is rescued from execution at the last minute. The main theme is socialism. Indeed, it has been described as an 'anti-socialist