New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- Mark Teixeira won Texas' 21st Congressional District, defeating Democrat Kristin Hook to succeed Republican Rep. Chip Roy in the U.S. House of Representatives. The former Texas Rangers and New York Yankees star will enter Congress after a 14-season Major League Baseball career.

59 a.m. Eastern on November 4, showed him with 194,302 votes, or 54.5%, to Hook's 162,088 votes, or 45.5%, with 99% of the expected vote counted. Those figures are a reporting snapshot, not certified final totals.

The result keeps the seat in Republican hands. Roy did not seek reelection to the House, having announced a run for Texas attorney general.

Teixeira secured more than 61% of the vote in a 12-candidate Republican primary in March, a...