Greg Pence just won Mike Pence's old House seat

Greg Pence has officially stepped into his younger brother's shadow.

The oldest Pence brother has won Indiana's 6th Congressional District — the seat Vice President Mike Pence used to hold — CNN and NBC News project. With just 12.2 percent of precincts reporting in the solid Republican district, Pence took 69 percent of voters over Democrat Jeannine Lake's 33 percent, per Reuters.

The older Pence worked on Rep. Luke Messer's Republican campaign for Sen. Joe Donnelly's (D) seat. Messer lost the Republican primary to Mike Braun, but Pence still kept his promise to run for Messer's vacated spot.

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The vice president held the same seat from 2003-2013, before he became the state's governor. Meanwhile, his older brother is stepping into his first elected office.