A Rustenburg polling station had to be moved on Wednesday after it was flooded, said Independent Electoral Commissioner co-ordinator Charmaine Mabale.

"It is a tent station and because of the rain, it was flooded and we have shifted it to the community hall," she said.

The voting station in Skierlik, Ward 27, Lethabong had been moved to the Benjamin Tause Austrian Community Hall.

People in Lethabong braved the rain to cast their votes, already in long queues at the Ruskraal and Barelwanedi primary schools at 6.30am.

Mabale said a polling station at the Bosa Bosele Primary School in Tlhabane had also been moved to the Tlhabane Community Hall ? it was not known why.

When voters queuing outside the school at 8.15am had refused to join the back of queue at the hall, they were allowed to form a new line and were later helped to vote, she said.

Some of them had to be redirected to the Kgwadi Kgwadi Primary school, as their names were not in the voters' roll at the hall.

Eleven political parties and three independent candidates are contesting the election in Rustenburg.