Vasse was an electoral district of the Legislative Council of

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from 1870 to 1890, during the period when the Legislative Council was the sole chamber of the

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. Vasse was one of the original ten Legislative Council districts created by the ''Legislative Council Act 1870'' (33 Vict, No. 13). The district's eastern boundary was a line running north-east from

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to the junction of the Balgarup and

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. Its northern boundary ran along the

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, Padbury Brook, and the

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, and then true west to the north end of

Wonnerup Inlet The Vasse-Wonnerup Estuary is an estuary in the South West region of Western Australia close to the town of Busselton. The estuary is listed with DIWA. It was also recognised as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Conventi ...

. The district was bordered by the district of Wellington to the north and the district of Albany to the south-east.. Five men represented Vasse in the Legislative Council between 1870 and 1890, with Thomas Carey serving two non-consecutive terms (from 1872 to 1874 and again from 1878 to 1884). Stephen Henry Parker, the MLC for Vasse from 1888 to 1890, went on to become

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.''The Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook (Twenty-Third Edition)''
, p. 370.

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