Clean energy entrepreneur Ricardo "Rick" de la Fuente, running for congressional seats in two states, defeated businessman Charlie Jackson in the race for the Democratic nomination in a congressional district that includes parts of Bastrop and Caldwell counties.

De la Fuente beat Jackson by a margin of 61.5% to 38.5%.

The 27th Congressional District stretches from parts of Central Texas to the Coastal Bend.

READ MORE: Texas election results from the American-Statesman

De la Fuente is also seeking the Democratic nomination for a California U.S. House seat.

Jackson had complained to the Texas Secretary of State about de la Fuente’s residency status.

"Candidate is not a resident of Texas," Jackson said in his complaint, noting de la Fuente’s listing of a California address in his campaign filing in that state.

"He is attempting to commit election fraud by simultaneously running for office in both Texas and California," Jackson wrote in asking that his opponent be scrubbed from the primary ballot in Texas.

The secretary of state’s office says political parties have final say on who is on primary ballots.

Texas Democratic Party Primary Director Glen Maxey told the American-Statesman in January that "the Constitution makes him eligible to file and run in Texas. I can't affect what he does in California. He filed an application, paid his fee, he gets to ride the merry-go-round as a candidate here in Texas.

"The Constitution states that a candidate for federal office must be a resident of Texas. It does not state the length of the residency," Maxey said in January. "He claimed residency on this application with an address in Victoria. So he's met the constitutional threshold of residency to run for Congress in Texas."

De la Fuente and his father, both running for the same California seat, lost that race on Tuesday.

In Texas, De la Fuente will face U.S. Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Victoria, who won the 2018 election with 60 percent of the vote and was unopposed in the Republican primary.