Sean Astin has been elected to serve as the next national president of SAG-AFTRA .

The results of the election were announced by the actors’ guild Friday evening, revealing that Astin was elected to succeed Fran Drescher with 79.25% of the vote. He will serve a two-year term alongside Michelle Hurd, who was selected for secretary-treasurer with 64.77% of the vote. Both begin their terms effective immediately.

Chuck Slavin, who also ran for president, received 20.75% of the votes, while his running mate Peter Antico received 35.23% of the votes for secretary-treasurer. Per the union, about 17% of SAG-AFTRA’s 117,000+ eligible members submitted ballots in this year’s national election.

That’s quite a decline from 2023, when nearly 23% of the union voted to re-elect Drescher. When she

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